[LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data the
information I gather during many years of research. This includes
copied and pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email,
responses on message boards, all the information I have gathered over
the years. I thought I would put it in the General{ notes section of
the Notes part, but it didn't work because when I tried to do a
copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't really like that option
anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any meaningful way.
I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person, named
perhaps, Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with this
is, if I want to print out (or review) ALL the information I have about
a person, the notes in the imaginary person's file would not be included.
The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy had a
section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize all
the information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the
Events/Facts would serve, since much of the information is conjectural
or at least not substantial enough to use as a fact.
Jane Wells Sarles
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Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
I put all those miscellaneous snips in OneNote (used it for years,
long before I even heard of EverNote) until I get a chance to enter
the data in Legacy. Once I enter the data, I can Print that page to
a PDF printer driver, saving it to the Media folder and then link to
the appropriate place in Legacy. I can also send it to Word and save
it as a Word document. The original snip is still in OneNote with the
URL of where it came from.
You can save other things besides web pages to OneNote as well.
But until I get confirmation of that data to make sure it applies to
my individual and I have entered something in Legacy to link it to, it
stays in OneNote, where it should.
OneNote can be on the web as well as Evernote.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data the
information I gather during many years of research. This includes
copied and pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email,
responses on message boards, all the information I have gathered over
the years. I thought I would put it in the General{ notes section of
the Notes part, but it didn't work because when I tried to do a
copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't really like that option
anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any meaningful way.
I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person, named
perhaps, Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with this
is, if I want to print out (or review) ALL the information I have about
a person, the notes in the imaginary person's file would not be included.
The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy had a
section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize all
the information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the
Events/Facts would serve, since much of the information is conjectural
or at least not substantial enough to use as a fact.
Jane Wells Sarles
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Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
Jane,
I do use General Notes and I organize it by date. For example: I transcribe
all the census records and they go in by Census Year. However, if I have a
deed or two that occurred in between a census year - say 1850 and 1860, I
transcribe those deeds and always put them in by the date they were
written, and not the date they were recorded. Wills and estate files would
go at the end as well as Find-a-Grave details for the burials. I put the
correspondence from email or transcribed letters, depending on the subject,
at either the beginning of the notes, or if it is an action that I don't
want to forget about, I put it under the Research tab. All of which can be
printed out so that you have everything that you have found so far under
that individual and his family. Some of my family group sheets are 25 - 30
pages long, when printed, due to the volume of information I found on that
family. Organizing my the date, will give you the lifeline of every
individual in your program. I hope this helps.
Margaret
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com
wrote:
I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data the
information I gather during many years of research. This includes
copied and pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email,
responses on message boards, all the information I have gathered over
the years. I thought I would put it in the General{ notes section of
the Notes part, but it didn't work because when I tried to do a
copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't really like that option
anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any meaningful way.
I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person, named
perhaps, Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with this
is, if I want to print out (or review) ALL the information I have about
a person, the notes in the imaginary person's file would not be included.
The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy had a
section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize all
the information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the
Events/Facts would serve, since much of the information is conjectural
or at least not substantial enough to use as a fact.
Jane Wells Sarles
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Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
Agree - both OneNote and Evernote are great and I use them for different things. If you use Microsoft products OneNote is really nice and the built in features and interaction with Excel and Word are quite good. Tessa Tessa Keough Guild of One-Name Studies, Keough (Keogh, Kough Kehoe) Registered ONS Legacy Virtual Users' Group Community on Google+ Society for One-Place Studies - Plate Cove East, Newfoundland On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Sherry/Support she...@legacyfamilytree.com wrote: I put all those miscellaneous snips in OneNote (used it for years, long before I even heard of EverNote) until I get a chance to enter the data in Legacy. Once I enter the data, I can Print that page to a PDF printer driver, saving it to the Media folder and then link to the appropriate place in Legacy. I can also send it to Word and save it as a Word document. The original snip is still in OneNote with the URL of where it came from. You can save other things besides web pages to OneNote as well. But until I get confirmation of that data to make sure it applies to my individual and I have entered something in Legacy to link it to, it stays in OneNote, where it should. OneNote can be on the web as well as Evernote. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree SNIP Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
OK, one of the things I have is the hours and locations of all the
libraries in the county where I know the Wells family lived. It doesn't
fit anywhere in Legacy that I can see, but it is useful information for
me when doing research. Please understand, this is just a sample of
the kind of thing I am talking about. Much of the info is nothing I
would ever put into the data base as event/fact. Perhaps, a list of all
the Wells people in the 1850 census of their county. Or the Barbados
history of a Wells family that MIGHT be mine. I am speaking of what
might be called ancillary information that will be useful when doing
research or just reviewing my data. As I say, I know I can put it into
Evernote (or One Note as the case may be), but wouldn't it be elegant if
there was a place in Legacy for it so that ALL our information for
genealogy could be in one place, instead of spread around in note
programs or separate files on our computer? Just a dreamer, I guess.
Jane
On 11/21/2014 12:36 PM, Sherry/Support wrote:
I put all those miscellaneous snips in OneNote (used it for years,
long before I even heard of EverNote) until I get a chance to enter
the data in Legacy. Once I enter the data, I can Print that page to
a PDF printer driver, saving it to the Media folder and then link to
the appropriate place in Legacy. I can also send it to Word and save
it as a Word document. The original snip is still in OneNote with the
URL of where it came from.
You can save other things besides web pages to OneNote as well.
But until I get confirmation of that data to make sure it applies to
my individual and I have entered something in Legacy to link it to, it
stays in OneNote, where it should.
OneNote can be on the web as well as Evernote.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data the
information I gather during many years of research. This includes
copied and pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email,
responses on message boards, all the information I have gathered over
the years. I thought I would put it in the General{ notes section of
the Notes part, but it didn't work because when I tried to do a
copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't really like that option
anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any meaningful way.
I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person, named
perhaps, Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with this
is, if I want to print out (or review) ALL the information I have about
a person, the notes in the imaginary person's file would not be included.
The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy had a
section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize all
the information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the
Events/Facts would serve, since much of the information is conjectural
or at least not substantial enough to use as a fact.
Jane Wells Sarles
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RE: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
Jane,
If I am doing a case study on a person, I will write up everything I have in MS
Word. I can then link to the Word document in the person's Media Gallery.
Since this is a link, I don't have to update anything in Legacy if I go back
into Word and update the document. This is how I do all of my proof arguments.
I can jazz up the report with tables and graphics as needed.
You could do the same thing. You could put all of those bits and pieces of a
person in a document file. You would have the added flexibility of being able
to include screenshots or snippets from websites that you can't do in the Notes
section of Legacy. Since it is linked, you can update the document whenever
you want and you wouldn't have to do anything further in Legacy. Legacy would
always have the most updated version.
Michele
Technical Support
mich...@legacyfamilytree.com
www.legacyfamilytree.com
-Original Message-
From: Jane Sarles [mailto:sarlesinsi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 12:24 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data the
information I gather during many years of research. This includes copied and
pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email, responses on message
boards, all the information I have gathered over the years. I thought I would
put it in the General{ notes section of the Notes part, but it didn't work
because when I tried to do a copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't really
like that option anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any meaningful way.
I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person, named perhaps,
Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with this is, if I want to
print out (or review) ALL the information I have about a person, the notes in
the imaginary person's file would not be included.
The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy had a
section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize all the
information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the Events/Facts
would serve, since much of the information is conjectural or at least not
substantial enough to use as a fact.
Jane Wells Sarles
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Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
Those would be repositories. Add them to the Repository Address List If you're planning on researching something specific, add it to the To-Do List for that person or as a general To-Do (i.e., research history of an area). There are lots of specific places to store info in Legacy... you have to figure out what you want to store and where it fits best. I think that's better than trying to put everything in one bucket, but then I'm a filer/organizer type. I want similar things together and not have a category polluted with something from another category. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: OK, one of the things I have is the hours and locations of all the libraries in the county where I know the Wells family lived. It doesn't fit anywhere in Legacy that I can see, but it is useful information for me when doing research. Please understand, this is just a sample of the kind of thing I am talking about. Much of the info is nothing I would ever put into the data base as event/fact. Perhaps, a list of all the Wells people in the 1850 census of their county. Or the Barbados history of a Wells family that MIGHT be mine. I am speaking of what might be called ancillary information that will be useful when doing research or just reviewing my data. As I say, I know I can put it into Evernote (or One Note as the case may be), but wouldn't it be elegant if there was a place in Legacy for it so that ALL our information for genealogy could be in one place, instead of spread around in note programs or separate files on our computer? Just a dreamer, I guess. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
You know, I think that may work. A couple of questions: How many items
will Legacy allow to be included? andis there a way to print all
these for a complete study of the person they relate to?
Thanks for a good clue to getting a mess organized.
Jane
On 11/21/2014 1:00 PM, Michele/Support wrote:
Jane,
If I am doing a case study on a person, I will write up everything I have in
MS Word. I can then link to the Word document in the person's Media Gallery.
Since this is a link, I don't have to update anything in Legacy if I go
back into Word and update the document. This is how I do all of my proof
arguments. I can jazz up the report with tables and graphics as needed.
You could do the same thing. You could put all of those bits and pieces of a
person in a document file. You would have the added flexibility of being
able to include screenshots or snippets from websites that you can't do in
the Notes section of Legacy. Since it is linked, you can update the
document whenever you want and you wouldn't have to do anything further in
Legacy. Legacy would always have the most updated version.
Michele
Technical Support
mich...@legacyfamilytree.com
www.legacyfamilytree.com
-Original Message-
From: Jane Sarles [mailto:sarlesinsi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 12:24 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data the
information I gather during many years of research. This includes copied and
pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email, responses on message
boards, all the information I have gathered over the years. I thought I
would put it in the General{ notes section of the Notes part, but it didn't
work because when I tried to do a copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't
really like that option anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any
meaningful way.
I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person, named
perhaps, Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with this is, if
I want to print out (or review) ALL the information I have about a person,
the notes in the imaginary person's file would not be included.
The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy had a
section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize all the
information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the
Events/Facts would serve, since much of the information is conjectural or at
least not substantial enough to use as a fact.
Jane Wells Sarles
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Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
You could create a new Legacy file or files for these items. I'm migrating
into Legacy from TMG. I have a couple of files there for these purposes. This
makes the information readily available, but doesn't clutter up my main file.
The system will work just as well in Legacy.
I store all my media in folder, actually folder tree, in Documents. This
makes it easily assessable for several purposes; Legacy being only one of those
purposes.
Barbara
On November 21, 2014 10:56:19 AM MST, Jane Sarles sarlesinsi...@gmail.com
wrote:
OK, one of the things I have is the hours and locations of all the
libraries in the county where I know the Wells family lived. It
doesn't
fit anywhere in Legacy that I can see, but it is useful information for
me when doing research. Please understand, this is just a sample of
the kind of thing I am talking about. Much of the info is nothing I
would ever put into the data base as event/fact. Perhaps, a list of all
the Wells people in the 1850 census of their county. Or the Barbados
history of a Wells family that MIGHT be mine. I am speaking of what
might be called ancillary information that will be useful when doing
research or just reviewing my data. As I say, I know I can put it into
Evernote (or One Note as the case may be), but wouldn't it be elegant
if
there was a place in Legacy for it so that ALL our information for
genealogy could be in one place, instead of spread around in note
programs or separate files on our computer? Just a dreamer, I guess.
Jane
On 11/21/2014 12:36 PM, Sherry/Support wrote:
I put all those miscellaneous snips in OneNote (used it for years,
long before I even heard of EverNote) until I get a chance to enter
the data in Legacy. Once I enter the data, I can Print that page to
a PDF printer driver, saving it to the Media folder and then link to
the appropriate place in Legacy. I can also send it to Word and save
it as a Word document. The original snip is still in OneNote with the
URL of where it came from.
You can save other things besides web pages to OneNote as well.
But until I get confirmation of that data to make sure it applies to
my individual and I have entered something in Legacy to link it to,
it
stays in OneNote, where it should.
OneNote can be on the web as well as Evernote.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jane Sarles
sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data
the
information I gather during many years of research. This includes
copied and pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email,
responses on message boards, all the information I have gathered
over
the years. I thought I would put it in the General{ notes section
of
the Notes part, but it didn't work because when I tried to do a
copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't really like that option
anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any meaningful way.
I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person,
named
perhaps, Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with
this
is, if I want to print out (or review) ALL the information I have
about
a person, the notes in the imaginary person's file would not be
included.
The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy
had a
section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize
all
the information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the
Events/Facts would serve, since much of the information is
conjectural
or at least not substantial enough to use as a fact.
Jane Wells Sarles
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Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
I have probably messed up already. I entered the files individually as documents. I did not know I could attach a folder to the person. The files were on my computer in separate folders, but when I put them in Legacy (as a media file) I deleted them from the old location (one of many folders on the family in question in Documents.) I suspect I am out of my depth, technologically speaking. Jane On 11/21/2014 2:00 PM, Michele/Support wrote: Jane, There is no limit to the number of items you can have linked in the Media Gallery. You won't be able to print documents from within Legacy itself but you can easily batch print if you have the files all in the same folder. Just highlight all of the files that you want to print and then right click and select Print. Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com -Original Message- From: Jane Sarles [mailto:sarlesinsi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 1:28 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information? You know, I think that may work. A couple of questions: How many items will Legacy allow to be included? andis there a way to print all these for a complete study of the person they relate to? Thanks for a good clue to getting a mess organized. Jane Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
No, you can only attach files, not folders. When I said you could batch print if they were in the same folder I meant in Windows. Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com -Original Message- From: Jane Sarles [mailto:sarlesinsi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 3:48 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information? I have probably messed up already. I entered the files individually as documents. I did not know I could attach a folder to the person. The files were on my computer in separate folders, but when I put them in Legacy (as a media file) I deleted them from the old location (one of many folders on the family in question in Documents.) I suspect I am out of my depth, technologically speaking. Jane On 11/21/2014 2:00 PM, Michele/Support wrote: Jane, There is no limit to the number of items you can have linked in the Media Gallery. You won't be able to print documents from within Legacy itself but you can easily batch print if you have the files all in the same folder. Just highlight all of the files that you want to print and then right click and select Print. Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com -Original Message- From: Jane Sarles [mailto:sarlesinsi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 1:28 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information? You know, I think that may work. A couple of questions: How many items will Legacy allow to be included? andis there a way to print all these for a complete study of the person they relate to? Thanks for a good clue to getting a mess organized. Jane Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information?
I disagree about the elegance of all this.
For one thing, library locations and hours DO change over
time (Summer hours for libraries, funding woes reduce hours,
street addresses change depending on which door they want
used this year, and so on and on and on). Keeping such a
list updated is practically a full-time job, and if you
don't keep updating it, there's no point to having it -- you
need it, you Google it.
As for people you can't yet link to your line, enter 'em as
unlinked sub-trees.
It is fatally easy to record something off-database and to
lose it in the morass of files.
I tend to put most of this ephemeral info in the NOTES of
the Original Progenitor. It clutters up only one FGS (and
extra points because it's usually the FGS with fewest
entries otherwise), and I can FIND it. Of which FINDING it
is the most-important. ;)
Note that I do not think of this methodology as elegant,
merely functional for my purposes.
Cheryl
Jane Sarles wrote:
OK, one of the things I have is the hours and locations of all the
libraries in the county where I know the Wells family lived. It doesn't
fit anywhere in Legacy that I can see, but it is useful information for
me when doing research. Please understand, this is just a sample of
the kind of thing I am talking about. Much of the info is nothing I
would ever put into the data base as event/fact. Perhaps, a list of all
the Wells people in the 1850 census of their county. Or the Barbados
history of a Wells family that MIGHT be mine. I am speaking of what
might be called ancillary information that will be useful when doing
research or just reviewing my data. As I say, I know I can put it into
Evernote (or One Note as the case may be), but wouldn't it be elegant if
there was a place in Legacy for it so that ALL our information for
genealogy could be in one place, instead of spread around in note
programs or separate files on our computer? Just a dreamer, I guess.
Jane
On 11/21/2014 12:36 PM, Sherry/Support wrote:
I put all those miscellaneous snips in OneNote (used it for years,
long before I even heard of EverNote) until I get a chance to enter
the data in Legacy. Once I enter the data, I can Print that page to
a PDF printer driver, saving it to the Media folder and then link to
the appropriate place in Legacy. I can also send it to Word and save
it as a Word document. The original snip is still in OneNote with the
URL of where it came from.
You can save other things besides web pages to OneNote as well.
But until I get confirmation of that data to make sure it applies to
my individual and I have entered something in Legacy to link it to, it
stays in OneNote, where it should.
OneNote can be on the web as well as Evernote.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jane Sarlessarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote:
I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data the
information I gather during many years of research. This includes
copied and pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email,
responses on message boards, all the information I have gathered over
the years. I thought I would put it in the General{ notes section of
the Notes part, but it didn't work because when I tried to do a
copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't really like that option
anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any meaningful way.
I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person, named
perhaps, Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with this
is, if I want to print out (or review) ALL the information I have about
a person, the notes in the imaginary person's file would not be included.
The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy had a
section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize all
the information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the
Events/Facts would serve, since much of the information is conjectural
or at least not substantial enough to use as a fact.
Jane Wells Sarles
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