for genealogists
http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/
On 7/13/2012 10:20 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote:
I’ve been reading Helps and Tutorials at FamilySearch.org and *believe*
I understand that trees now at new.FamilySearch are going to be moved to
something called Family Tree with significantly improved
tools
I’ve been reading Helps and Tutorials at FamilySearch.org and *believe* I
understand that trees now at new.FamilySearch are going to be moved to
something called Family Tree with significantly improved tools/capabilities.
Is this correct and, if so, how will it affect the current Legacy
Ian:
Tools Set Relationships.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Ian GARDENER
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 6:18 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Age on the family view?
Interesting. In looking for the display age option (which I'm sure now must
have been a
/2012 9:10 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote:
My Legacy database contains a few thousand individuals who are related
to each other by blood or marriage. One of these is my 3rd
great-grandfather (James) whose parents are unknown but whose two wives
are from families in the database. I suspect that James may
My Legacy database contains a few thousand individuals who are related to each
other by blood or marriage. One of these is my 3rd great-grandfather (James)
whose parents are unknown but whose two wives are from families in the
database. I suspect that James may be distantly related to even
Jenny:
It's a pickle. Considering changes we've seen in a few short years, I
imagine that in ten or 20 years more there will be precious few URLs that
will still be meaningful. I'm not such a philanthropist as to hope to leave
behind a search string that can be replicated, nor do I feel
Dawn:
Your message is a little too long to respond to all parts, so here are some
brief thoughts:
Are you making your surname corrections at View Master Lists Surname?
That’s by far the quickest and easiest way to do it.
Transfer of source citations from one program to another will
Bill:
Lots of people struggle over the Repository question. According to
_Evidence Explained_ listing a repository for published items is not
necessary since anyone can trace back and get the item from their own most
convenient source (and things you find online are interpreted as being
Bill:
It doesn't feel right because it isn't right. It sounds as if you've
entered the ED etc. at the Master Source Level, perhaps at the Text/Comments
tab or even somewhere on the first (Source Info) screen. For the second
source you've probably included the other ED and page number. Legacy
Marie:
In SourceWriter you could use the Personal Knowledge template.
Kirsten
From: M Sandvig
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 7:27 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Sourcing a Person
What is the best way to 'Source' a person. The info I got was from a very
informal
Sydney:
Many Legacy users simply include these people as unlinked individuals in their
main databases. Personally I shy away from that approach. I have a “Stray”
folder in My Documents with sub-folders for unlinked individuals, small family
groups, or even stub trees of 2-3 generations.
Peggy:
For events prior to 1776 in the (now) US, I use the official name of the
colony for the country since that was locally the highest jurisdictional
level. Ontario locations are a little more difficult. From 26 Dec 1791 to
10 Feb 1841 Ontario was Upper Canada and that's what I use for
Stuart:
I doubt that your bolding issue is related to anything you've entered in any
of the name fields but wanted to give advice that you really didn't ask for:
_Getting It Right_ recommends differentiating between children in a family
with the same given name by adding a number in parentheses
Peggy:
The 4-field convention for locations (with placeholder commas for missing
data) is a format used by many and hated by possibly an equal number (or at
least with equal passion). It's condemned by many as an American
abomination but I get weary of that complaint. Someone apparently needed
Brian:
It's not automatic; you have to periodically update the file on your iPad.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Brian Lehman
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:46 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Syncing my Legacy file with the Families app
Hello,
I am
Martyn:
As you say, there is no one *right* way to arrange your sources and some of
us have gone through a couple of different schemes. It sounds like you've
nearly settled on sorting master sources by record type, and that's
certainly a workable method. Before you go far into that arrangement
Julia:
I use Families on a 10 iPad and find it perfectly legible and pretty easy
to navigate although I surely do wish it worked with the iPad's un-pinch
feature to enlarge areas of the screen. (My hands are fairly unsteady and I
often tap the wrong field.) I love the portability aspect of the
Jenny:
To post sources or not is certainly your own choice. For those on the
fence, though, I'd say this:
First, I posted a tree at RootsWeb WorldConnect for about 5 years with no
sources cited but with a statement on each page saying that sources were
available and I'd be happy to share. Not
Graham:
As you indicated, the first benefit to new.FamilySearch is being able to
correct data that I submitted years ago via GEDCOM and wasn't able to
change/update after that. Now, hopefully, people won't copy my early
errors.
The second benefit is being able to group multiple records for the
Darren:
I would suggest that you watch the “Watch Geoff Live” webinars. Although I
don’t see one on birth certs, there are sessions on adding marriage and death
certificates and the concept is very similar. You’ll pick up a lot of tips
from those that will get you off to a good start with
Scott:
To each his own, but I sincerely hope that Legacy users don’t jump on this
particular bandwagon.
Years ago I was an FTM user and the sourcing capability was so weak that I
too put everything in Notes. On switching to Legacy I found that converting
those notes to proper sources was a
Jane:
The site was running a couple of hours ago but it seems to be down right now.
Kirsten
From: sarlesinsi...@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 2:27 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Search
I did search the archives and found how to get Family Search
Jane:
Ron's solution for the change to location prepositions would be a good
option but I'm not sure how it would be handled by GEDCOMs or at any sites
where you might post. I sometimes use [probably] in the location field
itself such as Sweden [probably] when I need to include some sort of a
Families for iPad questionMary:
Yes, that’s the way it works. And in my opinion it’s the best way to use the
app. If I come across data to enter when I’m away from my main system I
copy/paste the text and/or the link to one of the note-taking iPad apps and
then take the time to enter and
It’s my impression that *all* the old rubbish was intentionally brought over
with the ability (and expectation) that it would be cleaned up by the users. I
suppose that’s reasonable, but some of my earlier ancestors are so horribly
clobbered up that correcting/combining seems a hopeless task.
Jenny:
From what I’ve read, the old and obviously incorrect data will never be
removed unless by the person who submitted it originally. New “Opinions”
(hopefully with sources) can be entered into an individual’s record and moved
to a preferred position, a contributor of false data can
...
Paul Gray
From: Kirsten Bowman [mailto:vik...@rvi.net]
Sent: March-10-12 11:16 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Search: Phooey!
I registered for New Family Search when they first announced the system—and
they promised to send an e-mail notification when
Jemima, Marianne, and Bob:
Identical source citations should not repeat in reports. There are certain
conditions that will cause them to do that but these can be corrected. To
get help from the LUG list you need to identify the specific report you're
generating, whether the repetition is in
Nita:
Legacy is a wonderful program but after being seriously burned by a buggy
upgrade some years ago I learned to wait to see what the List traffic reports
before updating. Sometimes new problems can be corrected quickly and sometimes
they take months.
Kirsten
From: Nita Phillips
Sent:
Julia:
Yes, including street addresses would give you a longer location list—but
what’s the harm in that if it gives you the result you want? At the other
extreme, we recently had a thread where a few users suggested using only modern
location names rather than the place name at the time of
Julia:
Your core question isn’t clear to me, but there’s very little you can do in
Legacy that will “mess things up.” Granted, some things are more tedious to
change than others (sources, for example), but the Master Location List is
among the easiest to revise because of the Show List option
Julia:
It seems you’re getting quick partial answers to your initial question because
it’s a very complex issue. Legacy is basically designed to work with a 4-part
location field consisting of City, County, State, Country but it will
accommodate much more (or less). If any of those four
Jerry:
Your issues can be simplified considerably by remembering that it’s generally
not customary to cite repositories for published items that are widely
available, and records online are also considered “published.” With hard to
find items, however, I do include the repository in the
Jan:
I believe the most common method is to list searching the particular resource
as a To Do item, marking it as done, but not deleting it from the list.
Kirsten
From: Jan Wilson
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 5:31 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] How to record
I do much the same thing—using Research Notes for notations about unproven
facts, i.e. an unsourced tree online that says someone in my database was the
child of ___ or was born on ___. I also use Research Notes to record my
reasoning for an assumption such as a woman’s date of death (because
From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Mon, October 31, 2011 1:30:55 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geoff: Source List Arrangement?
Russ:
Yes, that would work for some, but I have a ton of book sources like
it through before
diving in, so thanks for your perspective.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Jenny M Benson
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 3:15 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geoff: Source List Arrangement?
On 01/11/2011 02:01, Kirsten Bowman wrote:
Thatââ
Stuart:
I wouldn’t. In Legacy you already have an automatic DUNLAP father for your
ancestor. I’d put what you know about both of these men in Research Notes,
maybe create some To Do items, and go to work finding more data to confirm or
contradict the connection.
Kirsten
From: Duncan family
in so”; “SMITH – GEDCOM of John Smith
descendants supplied by James Smith, 12-20-2010”.
Hope this helps.
Russ
From: Kirsten Bowman
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:07 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Geoff: Source List Arrangement?
Geoff:
In your last “Watch Geoff Live
Tony:
Forego history? For shame! Isn’t genealogy all about history? How much extra
effort or computer memory does it take to have two or three correct names for
the same geographical location?
I can’t speak for Australia or Queensland, but in the US it looks ignorant to
see it written that
Mike:
*Everyone needs* an iPad. I have the older model with Families/Legacy
installed and don't imagine it would be much different on the iPad2. The
Families app goes on your iPad and there's a free program that you download
to your PC (Families Sync) that converts your Legacy file to a format
: [LegacyUG] iPad 2 and Legacy
On 2011/10/27 08:46, Kirsten Bowman wrote:
*Everyone needs* an iPad.
No one *needs* an iPad. Most people *want* an iPad. Subtle distinction. Here,
they're terribly overpriced, so definitely not on my wish list. Besides, why
must I be part of Steve Jobs ego trip
Brian,
Sounds like somebody needs to get this someone person under control ;-).
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Brian/Support
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 8:59 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Wording in reports
Kirsten,
You are correct. There was a
Betty:
A problem like this cropped up a few years ago and may be the same as what
you’re seeing. My recollection is that it was caused by entering data in a
certain sequence. In my case I believe I had entered a wife’s details and a
marriage date before entering the husband’s name. Legacy
Brian:
It seems a shame that when a problem and an apparent cause is reported it
should go uncorrected for years. We all enjoy new feature introductions, but I
think it’s equally important that the basic system work properly.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Brian/Support
Sent:
I loved the angle bracket solution for probable information and used it in a
variety of fields until I saw that, with GEDCOMs posted at RootsWeb, text
within the brackets disappears. That could be good, bad, or of no concern,
depending on your circumstances. I don’t know what other
Rob:
If I’m not sure of the town I usually omit it and go to the next higher
jurisdiction—township or county. If I’m not even totally sure of that I use
something like “Wentworth County [probably], Upper Canada.” The brackets are
generally recognized as “editorial comments” and putting that
No, Syble. Mark meant for you to click on File and look at the dropdown list
to see the file name that appears at the bottom of the list *below* the Exit
command. Clicking on Exit will indeed close the program.
Kirsten
From: Syble Glasscock
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:19 PM
To:
Dean:
In an ideal world the family history book would cite (or hint at) original
sources that you could verify for yourself and cite. Since this is
unfortunately not the usual case, I use the book as a Master Source and break
out abstracts or extracts as separate source details. You might
Paula:
If you want to use the same template, why don't you just look in the Master
Source List, find the previously entered SourceWriter source, click Edit,
and the box that pops up will tell you (at the top) exactly which template
it was. You can even edit at that point and save it as a new
In my mini one-name study (2,000 or so individuals) I have many families who
intermarry regularly over several generations. I also have a number of wives
with an unproven surname “said to be . . .” which I usually stick away in
Research Notes where the rumored surname is not readily apparent.
Hello Jill, and welcome to the group. You have quite a project going on, and
Legacy can make it a good deal faster. When I switched from FTM to Legacy some
years ago I found features that made database cleanup much easier:
Checking the Surname Master List (View Master Lists Surname) is a
My Legacy database posted at RootsWeb WorldConnect displays an annoying
error in the source notes. (I doubt that it matters but I’m creating a
GEDCOM 5.5 and using Legacy 7.5.0.112.) The condition is this:
In all of the US Census SourceWriter templates, text entered into the
Website Title
Message-
From: Kirsten Bowman
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 7:41 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Italicized Font Bug?
My Legacy database posted at RootsWeb WorldConnect displays an annoying
error in the source notes. (I doubt that it matters but I’m
Do any list members use Carbonite for backup? If so . . .
Have you ever had to restore a Legacy database from Carbonite? Did it work
well? Do you use a medium in addition to Carbonite (CD, external hard drive,
etc.) or rely only on the service?
Kirsten
Legacy User Group guidelines:
on bothy my 64 bit Vista laptop and my
64-bit Windows 7 PC.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net wrote:
Hello Sherry:
I've already had the fonts set to the medium (125%) option which seems to
be
the only one
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:41:12 -0700, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net
wrote:
My HP laptop has Windows 7 Home Premium and there are only two options:
Smaller (100% - default) and Medium (125%). I still haven't found a way to
make screen resolution stick (no Apply option that I can see) but I'm
getting
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Font Size
On 2011/08/25 21:41, Kirsten Bowman wrote:
My HP laptop has Windows 7 Home Premium and there are only two options:
Smaller (100% - default) and Medium (125%). I still haven't found a way
to
make screen resolution stick (no Apply
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On 23/08/2011 6:40 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote:
Is there a way to globally adjust
Is there a way to globally adjust font sizes in Legacy? I've enlarged the
font on the Family and Individual views, and that carries over to some of
the screens but I can't find a way to enlarge fonts on others, especially
the Source Clipboard and left pane of the Name List.
Using v 7.5.0.112
what they copy so they do not, and you cannot,
change its font size. The paste font-size may be affected by that of the
font-size of the place to which it is being pasted. (I have not tested this
in Legacy)
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
-Original Message-
From: Kirsten Bowman
Sent
my PC resolution to mike the fonts bigger, or
have you done this already? I suspect that Shelley is probably the best
person to advise you about all the accessibility options which are
available.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
-Original Message-
From: Kirsten Bowman
Sent: Wednesday
enough because you need to have one
*you* can see!
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net wrote:
Ron:
I'm using Windows 7 and have made some basic accessibility adjustments but
there may be others that I don't know
Jerry:
Do sources attached to the Unspecified field transfer with a GEDCOM, and if
not, does that matter to you?
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Jerry
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:36 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Unspecified Source
Sorry, if I
Tony:
I just did one very similar to this yesterday. It was a marriage record from
the Drouin Collection of birth and marriage records from all Quebec churches
from 1621-1962 (also at Ancestry.com). An extreme lumper might use the name
of the collection as the Master Source but that would
Connie:
I use Families on an iPad and agree that it isn't practical for much data entry
but that's fairly easy to work around. If I'm browsing the Internet away from
home and find something of interest I just copy/paste the link and/or text,
save it on the iPad and input it later. With books
I used to print a great deal and file it all in 3-ring binders. After
switching to Legacy some years back I found myself printing less and less.
Now I rarely print anything at all. There are many reasons for going
paperless, but I think a major factor in the change has been Legacy itself.
My
Priscilla:
There are no hard-and-fast rules about the AKA field. At one extreme,
researchers believe it should be used for only those names actually (and
officially) used by the individual. At the other extreme, researchers include
every spelling variation found in any record (which is
because when I
went to the Help section at some point, I was none the wiser about which was
the correct choice to select.
Does this ring a bell?
Thanks for your help.
Margaret
--- On Tue, 6/28/11, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net wrote:
From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net
Subject: RE
Margaret:
The punctuation you mentioned is programmed into the system and can't be
changed as far as I know. I suspect that the difference you're seeing in the
citation output may be due to where you entered the text in creating the
citation. If you entered the full text of the record at the
Margaret:
I'm not sure that I'm following your issue correctly, but it sounds like you've
created three Master Sources when you should/could have only one. Typically at
the Master Source screen you would enter only the information that's common to
all three marriages which would probably be
Brett:
I found to my dismay that comments in the Source Detail don't transfer with a
GEDCOM--which I use for posting online. I don't know if that's important to
you, or if it's been changed with a recent update (I was on an earlier 7.xx
version then and haven't re-tested lately), but thought
James:
I would argue that the *newspaper* is the source, regardless of where you found
it reproduced. The name of the newspaper would then be the lead element in
your citation and other researchers, as you say, could find it in whatever
repository they choose. Actually, with published
. for the details. The reasoning being that the
actual source which I am accessing is GenealogyBank, which in turn is
referencing/citing the original source.
On , Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net wrote:
James:
I would argue that the *newspaper* is the source, regardless of where you
found it reproduced
Linda:
I would definitely list the book as a Master Source. Then using the Source
Clipboard you enter specific details about an individual, and those can be
grouped together. I favor including the exact text in the citation because you
will often find errors or differences between sources.
Howland:
That's the way I would do it. And then I'd go to work trying to confirm the
data with original records.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Howlanddavisii [mailto:howlanddavi...@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 12:53 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re:
the centuries as political entities graduated
from the Roman or Byzantine Empires, through the various feudal states and into
the modern era. Which does the new family search routines prefer?
Gene A
From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 14
Charlotte:
I had what I believe is a similar problem a short while back. Ron found the
clue: In the Master Source I had entered data in the Comments About This
Source section and checked the box to include the information the first time
only. That caused Legacy to view the versions as
Julia:
As with many things in Legacy, it's your choice whether to put data in Events,
Source Detail, or both. I do transcribe the whole family's census listing into
the source citation because I want it to appear in the Source Notes. With the
report format that I use most, Event information
And *that's a lot of paper. Guess it's a case of pick your poison.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Lori Hilty [mailto:lori.hi...@verizon.net]
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 11:44 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [LegacyUG] Entering census data/sources
Dick:
The recommended convention is to leave the field blank, which is not at all
helpful in your situation. Instead, researchers usually make up their own
conventions and those vary greatly. My only advice would be *not* to use some
of the previously common abbreviations such as Unk, LNU
Claudia:
From the family view with your mother's parents in the center panels and the
children listed below, *right* click on one of the children and you'll get a
box with several options. Look for and click on the one that says Childrens
Settings. The next box will give a list of the
Jerry:
The recommended standard (_Getting It Right_ by Mary H. Slawson) is to leave
the field blank if you don't have the data. That, however, is unacceptable to
many (most?) researchers so everyone seems to develop their own method--and
none of these are universally accepted. The only thing
, shocked, to find that for once I am in agreement with 'a
standard'! Albeit one that I had never heard of!!
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
-Original Message-
From: Kirsten Bowman
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 11:32 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Unknown
Gary:
I see many responses to part of your post but haven't noticed any regarding
sourcing your photos. If you want to develop a source citation for a
photograph, couldn't you use the Artifacts template in Legacy?
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: Olds-Wills-Anderson-Simonson
to
the photograph itself. Unless something has changed in the newest build of
Legacy...
Connie
--- On Fri, 2/25/11, Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net wrote:
From: Kirsten Bowman vik...@rvi.net
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Photos as Sources-Sources for Photos
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Date
Burton Chapman Clement Clough
Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates
Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner
Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams
From: Kirsten
Kevin:
It's unclear what you mean by use, but if you're asking how they can be
entered in the location field, I show them with the official name of the colony
in the country position: Hingham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
(I don't care for the look of the extra placeholder
Lisa:
Go to the Master Source List screen and look at the section headed Show Only.
Make sure you haven't unintentionally ticked one of those boxes.
Also, please note that your message was in HTML; posts to the list are supposed
to be in plain text only (see the Etiquette link at the bottom
James:
While I lean toward lumping where sources are concerned, I'd tend to go the
other way with events. If I understand your question correctly, you're saying
that, with a census record for example, you'd simply show that as a single
event rather than extrapolating other events from it such
Glitch?
Kirsten,
Yes, it does seem logical. The fact is that by selecting to show the comment
on the first time only your are, in effect, creating two different
citations, one with the comment and one without.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
-Original Message-
From: Kirsten Bowman
not
-Original Message-
From: Kirsten Bowman
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 2:54 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Source Citation Glitch?
I'm finding an aggravating problem with duplicated source citations:
When attaching a citation of any type (book, marriage
I'm finding an aggravating problem with duplicated source citations:
When attaching a citation of any type (book, marriage record, etc.) from the
Source Clipboard to the husband and wife's name fields and the marriage
information, the source is duplicated in the list of citations on the
Reports
My totally tech sons and daughter-in-law visited for a week at Christmas and
of course there were iPads everywhere. I'm s jealous I can't stand it,
but I'm not about to give up Legacy. Most of my research is online rather
than at libraries or archives, but I'd love to be able to sit on the
-Original Message-
From: Kirsten Bowman [mailto:vik...@rvi.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:17 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Legacy and iPad?
My totally tech sons and daughter-in-law visited for a week at Christmas and
of course there were iPads everywhere
Maurice:
With this number of questions, I would suggest that you invest in a copy of
_Getting It Right_ by Mary H. Slawson. She will give you precise answers to
all of these questions--and more. Conveniently, the examples and instructions
are based on the fields in the Legacy software. The
Jean:
Exactly! Many of us start off by using Legacy just as it was designed--and it
works very nicely that way. But often it isn't long before we begin tinkering
with different uses for some of the fields in order to get a custom result,
just as you're doing. Usually this is quite
Richard:
I believe this is incorrect. You *can* have a Master Source that isn't used
(not attached to any individual). You can also Purge Unused (Sources
Options), but I don't know how to get a list of them.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES
Elizabeth:
It can be confusing but once you figure it out you'll wonder what the
difficulty was.
A *source* is a book, census, cemetery marker, letter--whatever gave you the
information. A *citation* is the form you use to record the information from
the source. To record the same
-Original Message-
From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:19 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Using Clipboard? Clarification
On 14/10/2010 03:51, Kirsten Bowman wrote:
Those who are just beginning to use
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