Hi Lynn, thanks so much for responding! I was beginning to think I was the
only one out there who had a problem with the current citation format. I
agree that the only way to duplicate the complete citation in the format of
Ms. Mills' guide is to create a separate source for each and every entry.
This is not the way I want to go.
I'm hoping plan B will happen - that is, that the Legacy programmers will at
some point reformat the sequence of the citation (or at least give to user
the flexibility to arrange the components to suit his/her purposes).
In the mean time, I will post a note to the APG-rootweb list. Ms. Mills
reads and sometimes even posts to this list. Maybe she can offer a
suggestion on how to handle the formatting situation (or help us not worry
about it). It's been a while since I used any other genealogy software (and
I do not to change any time soon), so I don't recall if other programs
handle the citation formats differently. Perhaps others can comment.
Thanks again for your response and I'll let everyone know the response I get
from the APG list.
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Georgia
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nestorgenealogy/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Magnuson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:03 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tombstone Source Citation Question
Gail,
I have been struggling with this as well. I was so excited about Legacy
when I first started using it a few months ago, that I entered source
information for census information, trying to figure out how the sources
worked. Then I purchased the training CD's and saw the way it's done on
the Ultimate Guide to Sources CD, and redid all my sources according to
that format. Then I received Evidence! as a birthday gift, and started
working with it. So I'm on my third round of figuring out sources, and I'm
still not sure what the answer is.
In order to get the end result to appear in the format used in Evidence! I
made "cheat sheets" that would remind me which information to put into
which fields. However, this resulted in using a unique Master Source for
each head of household (I am using census examples rather than cemetery)
which defeats the advantage of the Master Sources. Also, I needed to enter
information in fields that don't match, for example, Author becomes the
name of the head of household, etc.
I have two reservations about doing this, (1) how does this affect Ibid in
the Source List and (2) my friend brought up the fact that future versions
may handle the fields differently than they are handled now, which would
re-arrange the output of the sources - a major consideration.
I would prefer to have a way to print out the sources as they appear in
Evidence!. Thank you for letting me know I'm not the only one who would
like to be able to "standardize" my citations.
- Lynn Magnuson
Seattle, Washington
Gail Nestor wrote:
Is there a way to rearrange the order of the Source Citation output given
the following inputs:
Input fields used:
Source List Name: State, County, Town - Cemetery
Type: Cemetery
Author: [blank]
Title: Cemetery, Town, County, State
Publication: [blank]
Citation Detail: John Doe tombstone, block X, lot Y, photographed by
[me], date
Output: Cemetery, Town, County, State, John Doe tombstone, block X, lot
Y, photographed by [me], date
Here's how I would like it to read (using Mills' suggested citation
format in "Evidence"):
John Doe tombstone, block X, lot Y, Cemetery, Town, County, State;
photographed by [me], date
Note that the Citation Source is sandwiched in between the Citation
Detail. I would prefer not to create a separate source for each stone.
It's handy to me for each cemetery, not each individual stone, to serve
as a source.
Is there a way to get the output I want without having to rig the input
fields? What have others done who are trying to conform with the current
genealogical citation standards? I'd love some ideas!
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Georgia
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