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    1. [CLOOZ] Question on Clooz/Legacy Source Interaction
    2. Gail Rich Nestor
    3. Hi Liz, I am a current user of Legacy Deluxe 6.0.0.10 and am trying out Clooz to see if it can work for me. I am also an active reader of the APG list and plan to get certified within the next couple years. The other thing to note is that my current database has just under 6,000 individuals and has hundreds and hundreds on census citations. Now for my question/issue... In Legacy, I have set up a Master Source for each census year for each county. Here's a sample of what some of my Source List Names look like: Census: Alabama, Barbour - 1920 U.S. Census [Ancestry.com images] Census: Alabama, Barbour - 1930 U.S. Census [Ancestry.com images] Census: Alabama, Bullock - 1900 U.S. Census [Ancestry.com images] Census: Alabama, Chambers - 1850 U.S. Census [Ancestry.com images] For each person find in each census, I create a census event and transcribe the listing of the census in the notes section for that event. For example, I have in one event note: 1) George Gilreath, male age 74, farmer, $1000 real estate, $400 personal estate, born in NC 2) Sarah Gilreath, female age 72, domestic, born in NC, cannot write 3) Larkin Gilreath, male age 41, farm labor, born in NC 4) Sarah Gilreath, female age 30, domestic, born in NC Then I enter the citation details which are attached to the master source. For example: "George N. Lewis household, 222 North Eufala St., Eufala, precint 5, district 11, dwelling 71, family 74, page 4A, from National Archives microfilm T625, roll 3, image 167" Last, I copy the whole event, source included, and paste it as an event for each member of the whole family. Therefore, attached to each master source, I may have source details for one, or for many, families. When I look in Clooz, all the census master sources show up under "Source," but none of them show up in the appropriate "Census" categories. Also, they all show up as a source type of "document" and not as a book, newspaper, website, etc. as I have them listed in Legacy. Then, when I go to the U.S. Federal Census in Clooz, it is empty. Then I decided I could try to re-set up each Master Source by hand. I saw how I could choose a census master source from the drop-down box. So far, so good. However, in trying to link a person (for which I have to switch to Legacy and "Show List"), I have to scroll through a lengthy list (no way to just start typing and have it pull the ID number up) and select the person. Also, while I can scroll by last name, the first names are not the secondary sort. Therefore, two John Smiths might not be together. Then it wants me to select a personal file number and I'm not sure what would be appropriate here. I have other issues, but maybe I am going about this all the wrong way. I know Clooz was designed to work with Legacy. Perhaps if I had started using it before I got so far along with my sources, this would all be easier. Can you give me some hope that I still might be able to get this to work? Sorry for this *very* long-winded note! It is very hard to accurately describe this particular situation. Yet, I feel it may be the same boat a lot of Legacy users are in. -- Gail Rich Nestor Smyrna, Georgia www.roots2buds.net

    10/16/2006 11:21:51