In message <[email protected]>, John Steed <[email protected]> writes: >To J P Gilliver > >There is a way to add the same source two times to the same event. > >Do you have BK 7.0.48 or what version? Click Options on the source 7.0.15. >grid to have it show all previous sources on the 10 most recent >sources, even if the event already has that source. Thanks. I can't see "Options" on the source grid - maybe it'll be there if I upgrade to 7.0.48. > >John Steed > (Any thoughts on my suggestion of the quality digit appearing in the list of sources?) > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "J. P. Gilliver (John) via" ><[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 6:00 AM >Subject: [BK] same source, different pages? Also,freeze button for >source/page? (Quality on source list?) > > >>I have the source for a father's occupation and/or father and mother's >> place of residence, on a given date, as "register of baptisms", since >> one or both of those pieces of information are present in the baptism >> record of one of their children. So, I enter it, including the page >> reference. >> >> I subsequently find the baptism record for another child; I find that >> the father's occupation and/or parents' place of residence is the same, >> so I amend the father's record to show now a _range_ of dates. I tab >> along to the Source square, but find I can't add the new source for this >> information; since "register of baptisms" is already there, the "add >> previous source" and "add previous source and page" buttons are absent. >> >> I thought I'd ask it as a more general question: when you find a second >> source for the same piece of information (possibly with a different date >> as in this case, possibly not), but it is on another page/film/whatever >> in a source you already have for that piece of information, what do you >> do? >> >> (In my case, I could only see two options: either edit the existing >> entry to add both to the "page" box [although it isn't a very big box >> and the string length does have a fairly small limit], or not record the >> second page. I chose the latter, as I didn't want to corrupt the BK >> "memory" of the page, as there might have been other data in the entry I >> wanted to use the "same source and page" button for.) >> >> John, any chance of a "freeze" button for the "last source" and "last >> source and page" facilities? Quite often, I'm entering lots of data from >> a given source, and I find those two buttons most useful; however, >> sometimes (especially if the data conflicts!) I want to go into and look >> at one of the existing sources (say, to see what quality level I'd >> ascribed, or if I'd added any notes that might help explain the >> discrepancy) - but going into the earlier source then corrupts the >> "memory". >> >> It's just occurred to me that it'd be useful if the quality rating - >> just the figure (blank, 0, 1, 2, or 3) - could be visible in the _list_ >> of sources. (Wouldn't completely eliminate the above, but might help - >> and I think it'd be a useful thing, anyway.) >> -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 >>MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf >> >> The middle classes have no real value in television terms, apart from as a >> spawning ground for TV-drama serial murderers. Spot a man in glasses >>reading a >> book and you can guarantee his hobby is showing dismembered >>prostitutes down >> drains as Mahler's Symphony No 5 plays on the stereo. Killers just love >> classical music. - Alison Graham, RT 2014/12/6-12 >> Remember - Use the Archives at >>http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >>the subject and the body of the message >> > -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf All that glitters has a high refractive index.
To J P Gilliver I will consider your suggestion of having the Quality show for existing sources on the grid. Currently that grid only shows the top 4 fields and does not show the 4 text fields or page number or quality or repository or call number. But I will consider it. John Steed ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. P. Gilliver (John) via" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 4:30 PM Subject: Re: [BK] same source, different pages? Also,freeze button for source/page? (Quality on source list?) > In message <[email protected]>, John Steed > <[email protected]> writes: >>To J P Gilliver >> >>There is a way to add the same source two times to the same event. >> >>Do you have BK 7.0.48 or what version? Click Options on the source > > 7.0.15. > >>grid to have it show all previous sources on the 10 most recent >>sources, even if the event already has that source. > > Thanks. I can't see "Options" on the source grid - maybe it'll be there > if I upgrade to 7.0.48. >> >>John Steed >> > (Any thoughts on my suggestion of the quality digit appearing in the > list of sources?) >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "J. P. Gilliver (John) via" >><[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 6:00 AM >>Subject: [BK] same source, different pages? Also,freeze button for >>source/page? (Quality on source list?) >> >> >>>I have the source for a father's occupation and/or father and mother's >>> place of residence, on a given date, as "register of baptisms", since >>> one or both of those pieces of information are present in the baptism >>> record of one of their children. So, I enter it, including the page >>> reference. >>> >>> I subsequently find the baptism record for another child; I find that >>> the father's occupation and/or parents' place of residence is the same, >>> so I amend the father's record to show now a _range_ of dates. I tab >>> along to the Source square, but find I can't add the new source for this >>> information; since "register of baptisms" is already there, the "add >>> previous source" and "add previous source and page" buttons are absent. >>> >>> I thought I'd ask it as a more general question: when you find a second >>> source for the same piece of information (possibly with a different date >>> as in this case, possibly not), but it is on another page/film/whatever >>> in a source you already have for that piece of information, what do you >>> do? >>> >>> (In my case, I could only see two options: either edit the existing >>> entry to add both to the "page" box [although it isn't a very big box >>> and the string length does have a fairly small limit], or not record the >>> second page. I chose the latter, as I didn't want to corrupt the BK >>> "memory" of the page, as there might have been other data in the entry I >>> wanted to use the "same source and page" button for.) >>> >>> John, any chance of a "freeze" button for the "last source" and "last >>> source and page" facilities? Quite often, I'm entering lots of data from >>> a given source, and I find those two buttons most useful; however, >>> sometimes (especially if the data conflicts!) I want to go into and look >>> at one of the existing sources (say, to see what quality level I'd >>> ascribed, or if I'd added any notes that might help explain the >>> discrepancy) - but going into the earlier source then corrupts the >>> "memory". >>> >>> It's just occurred to me that it'd be useful if the quality rating - >>> just the figure (blank, 0, 1, 2, or 3) - could be visible in the _list_ >>> of sources. (Wouldn't completely eliminate the above, but might help - >>> and I think it'd be a useful thing, anyway.) >>> -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 >>>MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf >>> >>> The middle classes have no real value in television terms, apart from as >>> a >>> spawning ground for TV-drama serial murderers. Spot a man in glasses >>>reading a >>> book and you can guarantee his hobby is showing dismembered >>>prostitutes down >>> drains as Mahler's Symphony No 5 plays on the stereo. Killers just love >>> classical music. - Alison Graham, RT 2014/12/6-12 >>> Remember - Use the Archives at >>>http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >>>the subject and the body of the message >>> >> > > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > All that glitters has a high refractive index. > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >
On Tue, 5 May 2015 21:30:50 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John) via" <[email protected]> wrote: >In message <[email protected]>, John Steed ><[email protected]> writes: >>To J P Gilliver >> >>There is a way to add the same source two times to the same event. >> >>Do you have BK 7.0.48 or what version? Click Options on the source > >7.0.15. > >>grid to have it show all previous sources on the 10 most recent >>sources, even if the event already has that source. > >Thanks. I can't see "Options" on the source grid - maybe it'll be there >if I upgrade to 7.0.48. A general good advice is to have the latest program when you aske for many problem. John do all the time update the program and fix problem so the best way to also help him in his work, is to keep our program up to date. -- Otto Jørgensen http://home.online.no/~otjoerge/ All email is checked by NIS2014