Gail wrote:
> In citing my sources, I would like to be able to include the web site
> address as part of the "master source" in Legacy, and to include the
> accessed date as part of the "citation detail." With Legacy, I cannot do
> this and have it formatted as Mills' example above (combined within the
> parentheses).
>
> I recently brought this up on the APG list and Ms. Mills herself responded
> to my post: "Sounds like you need to lobby your software developer to give
> you more flexibility!"
I completely agree that E. S. Mills is The Authority on citing sources.
I have her book and it is an impressive little thing. It is also IMO a bit
"over the top". She has all these different formats for all these different
sources and it just seems to me to be a bit TOO involved. Now Legacy
may not have the flexibility of TMG, but then folks complain about TMG
being ugly, hard to learn and slow. Maybe there's a trade off here, and
if you throw all the flexibility of TMG into Legacy 7, you wind up with
an Ugly and/or Slower Legacy? Maybe it takes so much developer time
that other things don't get in? I'd much rather see Legacy 7 make
descendant charts than see it handle sources in reports better.
Also at a certain level the need for this escapes me. I agree it may
be desireable, but the data are captured by the Legacy Database aren't
they? It's just a matter of how it's formatted on output, Footnote vs.
Endnote and what fields go into the footnote. Why not just stick
the info you want into the comments field and check the box that
says include comments in source citation? Yup it's tedious, but it
can be done can't it?
Besides it seems to me that perhaps Pro Genealogists are a bit
behind the technology curve here? They like reports cuz that's
what they deal with because that's what's been done in the past.
But if the data's all in a database, then just get the database and
who needs the report?
jr
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