Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-12 Thread Wynthner
/08, JLB wrote: > From: JLB > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:13 PM > Will there ever be a Source Converter, or has that idea been > abandoned? > - > JL > JLog - simple c

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-12 Thread JLB
Will there ever be a Source Converter, or has that idea been abandoned? - JL JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog Jenny M Benson wrote: Randolph Clark wrote When you try to merge the old-style with the new-style don't you get the message that they're i

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-12 Thread Hope Bagot Bees
Ah well now, I wonder - it is possible for a renegade like me (simple family historian of some 40 years experience) to change the new-style sources BACK to the old-style, which I have used happily for some time now. I find the new ones altogether OTT for what I require. Elizabeth Jenny M

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
Randolph Clark wrote When you try to merge the old-style with the new-style don't you get the message that they're incompatible? Oh beggar and blow! You wicked programmers! I just tried it now and discovered you are right. That's a new feature of the latest upgrade. I've converted numerou

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-12 Thread Randolph Clark
When you try to merge the old-style with the new-style don't you get the message that they're incompatible? On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > JLB wrote > >> OK, not done. The basic source is cited for several people. The new >> source is connected to no-one. I tried com

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-12 Thread Jenny M Benson
JLB wrote OK, not done. The basic source is cited for several people. The new source is connected to no-one. I tried combining the old source with the new one. No go. Is there a shortcut here anywhere for pointing the new source to the people cited by the basic source? I mean something sho

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
Duh . . . That's what comes from looking at a screen for the first time. Elizabeth researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson - Original Message - From: "Gene Young" To: Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] n

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread JLB
"Del" were now available. They remain when I clicked the "Show All Events/Sources" again. Elizabeth researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson ----- Original Message ----- From: "JLB" To: Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:16 PM Subject: R

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread Gene Young
Elizabeth Richardson wrote: JL, I don't usually work from the Name List (I prefer Family View), but I just checked and I can cite a new source from there if I wish. However, the buttons available were "New" and "Cite" only. If you select a souce, the "Edit" "Detail" and "Del" buttons become a

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
(Patterson) Thompson - Original Message - From: "JLB" To: Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer That sounds logically reasonable, just not do-ably-reasonable. Has anyone else noticed, even since the gigantic update to Legacy

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
the manually citing situation. Elizabeth researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson - Original Message - From: "Elizabeth Richardson" To: Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:56 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer I don't thi

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread JLB
rching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson - Original Message - From: "JLB" To: Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:48 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer Good Grief! I've finally got up the nerve (and the time) to try the Source Writer.

Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread Elizabeth Richardson
and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson - Original Message - From: "JLB" To: Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:48 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer Good Grief! I've finally got up the nerve (and the time) to try the Source Writer. I took one simple email sour

[LegacyUG] newbie to source writer

2008-12-11 Thread JLB
Good Grief! I've finally got up the nerve (and the time) to try the Source Writer. I took one simple email source and tried to 'edit' it. That didn't work. Turned on the Source Writer in Customize. Started a new source, flipping back and forth between the basic and the fields for the new