I decided to work on my family tree. Dad was a little interested, but not terribly so. He had other projects (he's retired). His mother died and he inherited boxes of pictures and newspaper clippings. He recently finished up his other projects and has gotten bit by the genealogy bug. I'm using Legacy so he downloaded a copy, started entering people from the newspaper clippings, family stories, etc. He scanned in old photos and emailed them to me (we're in different states). I'm sure he's driving Mom crazy, but at least he has a new project to be excited about. All that's the good news. The bad news is I haven't been able to get him to listen when I try to explain good research procedures. Little to none of his data is documented and I don't forsee getting him to change any time soon as he's very stubborn (as was his mother; my husband says I come by it honest). He's of the mindset that it must be true because that's the story he's heard all his life and they even printed it in the paper. So, I figure I have one of two solutions, but I'm not sure which is best: 1) Merge his data into mine and flag his entries as coming from him so I know I'll need to provide the documentation. 2) Keep his data separate and add it to mine as I verify it. I can see (2) being a pain in the butt to maintain two databases and keeping track of what has been merged and what hasn't. I'm sure there are some "gotcha's" to (1) that I'm not forseeing. And there are probably other options I haven't considered. Advice? Thanks, --Charlene -- When a lion escapes from a circus in Africa, how do they know when they've caught the right one? --George Carlin ===== Free Book Searches (out-of-print, hard-to-find, foreign, used, new) - mailto:findbook@flash.net

In Legacy you can flag stuff for its surety level - 3 of the options are 2. Probable conclusion 1. Marginal evidence 0. Have not yet decided Maybe you can merge the data and auto source all your fathers stuff as one of the above as you get the evidence you can change the source and then only call up your father's ones that need confirming You can get a list of all info that is from a particular source. -- Helen Castle have a look at my rellie's at: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~hcastle/ ICQ 3184996 Penrith Dispensary Register http://www.ozemail.com.au/~jmalloy Miscellaneous Newspaper Transcripts http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hcastle Happy to share my AVRI's and NSW BDM's email me for lookups For the discussion of Australia and New Zealand genealogy. The oldest and most extensive mailing list for the region. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/AUS/GEN "Charlene Charette" <charlene@flash.net> wrote in message news:3C564810.AA7EC2B9@flash.net... > I decided to work on my family tree. Dad was a little interested, but > not terribly so. He had other projects (he's retired). His mother died > and he inherited boxes of pictures and newspaper clippings. He recently > finished up his other projects and has gotten bit by the genealogy bug. > I'm using Legacy so he downloaded a copy, started entering people from > the newspaper clippings, family stories, etc. He scanned in old photos > and emailed them to me (we're in different states). I'm sure he's > driving Mom crazy, but at least he has a new project to be excited > about. > > All that's the good news. The bad news is I haven't been able to get > him to listen when I try to explain good research procedures. Little to > none of his data is documented and I don't forsee getting him to change > any time soon as he's very stubborn (as was his mother; my husband says > I come by it honest). He's of the mindset that it must be true because > that's the story he's heard all his life and they even printed it in the > paper. > > So, I figure I have one of two solutions, but I'm not sure which is > best: > > 1) Merge his data into mine and flag his entries as coming from him so > I know I'll need to provide the documentation. > > 2) Keep his data separate and add it to mine as I verify it. > > I can see (2) being a pain in the butt to maintain two databases and > keeping track of what has been merged and what hasn't. I'm sure there > are some "gotcha's" to (1) that I'm not forseeing. And there are > probably other options I haven't considered. > > Advice? > > Thanks, > --Charlene > > -- > When a lion escapes from a circus in Africa, how do they know when > they've caught the right one? --George Carlin > ===== > Free Book Searches (out-of-print, hard-to-find, foreign, used, new) - > mailto:findbook@flash.net