Re: [LegacyUG] entering and sourcing a seaman's log book

2011-07-07 Thread Wes
On 7/6/2011 6:07 PM, Louise wrote: My husband's grandfather was a ship's carpenter out of England in the early 1900s and we have his actual log book covering his trips from 1905 to 1912. It shows the details of the ships he sailed on, their dates and places of departure and discharge, where

Re: [LegacyUG] entering and sourcing a seaman's log book

2011-07-07 Thread Connie Sheets
While the Military template might work, especially if you know he was a ship's carpenter for the Navy, not a commercial vessel, I would be more inclined to try the Diary or Artifacts templates first, as they seem to me to be closer to the type of privately held source material you have. I

[LegacyUG] entering and sourcing a seaman's log book

2011-07-06 Thread Louise
My husband's grandfather was a ship's carpenter out of England in the early 1900s and we have his actual log book covering his trips from 1905 to 1912. It shows the details of the ships he sailed on, their dates and places of departure and discharge, where they went, and what he sailed as. Now

Re: [LegacyUG] entering and sourcing a seaman's log book

2011-07-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 06/07/2011 23:07, Louise wrote: My husband's grandfather was a ship's carpenter out of England in the early 1900s and we have his actual log book covering his trips from 1905 to 1912. It shows the details of the ships he sailed on, their dates and places of departure and discharge, where

Re: [LegacyUG] entering and sourcing a seaman's log book

2011-07-06 Thread Leon Chapman
Louise I would use Events for the person for each trip / voyage. The source is your log book. I would treat that like a book with g-pa as the author. Hope this helps. Sent from my iPad Chap chap...@gmail.com On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Louise louiseboo...@gmail.com wrote: My husband's

Re: [LegacyUG] entering and sourcing a seaman's log book

2011-07-06 Thread atlantajm
separate events would have been a bit much. -Original Message- From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 6:23 pm Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] entering and sourcing a seaman's log book On 06/07/2011 23:07, Louise wrote: My