I am new to genealogy; however, I want to start sourcing and documenting correctly. Here are my concerns, questions, or misunderstandings. Can anyone help me clarify things? 1. From what I am finding out, the "best" or recommended method for creating reports (publishing) is to use footnotes. 1.a Footnotes are not currently available in Legacy V6.0 1.b I am so far away from publishing it isn't funny; however, I would like my data in the best, correct format for use in the future. 2. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown Mills offers three (3) citation suggested formats; Primary Citations (Endnotes or Footnotes), Subsequent Citations (Endnotes or Footnotes), and Bibliographic Entry. 2.a The format for these options are all different. Thus creating an automatic endnote or footnote from the current Legacy V6.0 database may be quite difficult if the current database does not contain finite information or fields for all formats. 2.b Depending on the citation type (interview, census, etc.) information for "fields" are different and may be displayed differently for various citations type (footnote vs. bibl.) 2.c Are there enough specific, finite fields being used in Legacy to convert our sourcing information into CORRECTLY formatted footnote format, both long and short, once Legacy hopefully introduces true footnotes? 3. Before I purchased Legacy I downloaded and worked with a number of the programs out there. After referrals and personal testing I broke my decision down to The Master Genealogist and Legacy. Due to the incredible user interface in Legacy, I went with it. 3.a After finding out about sourcing and footnotes, lack thereof in Legacy, I am having questions on whether to proceed with this program or to try and learn TMG that offers better sourcing options.
4. There are helps on the Legacy website to enter sources in the "correct" format to follow the Mills standard. It just appears a bit of manipulation of the information has to be done to get it into the right format. This potentially spells trouble when trying to convert data from one format to another. 4.a TMG has multiple tables to enter "Interviewer," "Interviewee," "Date of Interview," etc. for example. I just don't see this in Legacy and am very concerned. Do any of you have these same concerns or challenges? I don't want to have to reenter hundreds of sources into a new program years down the road if Legacy isn't holding information optimally in its database? Lastly I have not seen this, and so appreciate it, but please don't take offense to my comments or flame me for this post. I love the software, but I'm thinking of the future and want to minimize headaches and potentially endless data entry in the future. Your comments and suggestions regarding source/citation formatting (to the "Mills" de facto standard) is greatly appreciated. I would rather eat the cost of the software vs. getting tied down to a potential data entry problem. Please steer me in the right direction. Thanks. Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
