copy paste text from notes / source citations

[eventide]

In extracting information from a Supreme Court case involving an ancestor it seems I am going to exceeded the character limit in notes. Currently the text is in Misc. Notes. I would like to break up the text into new notes fields, but when I copy/paste the text into a new note, the detail in the source citation changes - every detail field for that note becomes the same. Any suggestions?

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[Michael Talibard]

I would always enter a document of that length as a source rather than a note.

[eventide]

It is a source of course. And its the source detail that changes when I copy and paste text from one note to another.
Much of the info in the court document tells a story which is why I am extracting info and putting into notes. Most of the information doesn't translate into the events/facts fields.

[Michael Talibard]

One of the great things about Reunion is its flexibility: we each develop our own ways of using it. So no criticism intended, but if you have the full text in a source, why do you want to copy it into a note? I would write a note (or perhaps several) that far more briefly gave the gist of the matter[s] and let the reader who wants to see all the details go to the source itself from there. The source would have an image of each page of the court document (or more likely, I'd make one source per page), so no need to transcribe.

[Blaise A. Darveaux]

Michael, the way you do it is very good and is exactly what I do, but it is not exactly what eventide is pointing out.

I did some experimenting and eventide is correct. There is something wrong with the copy and pasting of source citations when the same citation with different detail is used multiple times.

I went to my great grandfather where I have a Misc. Notes with about a dozen citations, some with details some without. There was one citation number that was used three times, each with different information in the citation detail field. So I selected the whole Misc. Notes field, Copied, made a new Research note, and Pasted. In the pasted notes, the citation number that was used three times all had the same citation detail information -- namely, the information that was in the first occurrence that that number was used.

This is something Leister needs to look at because it results in lost information.

[eventide]

Thank you Blaise for confirming the issue I am having. Hopefully Leister can help resolve it.

@ Michael. I actually enjoy conversations where we share ideas on how we use Reunion. In this case I am extracting, not transcribing. That said, there is a lot of information packed into this case. The source is a 1300+ page court case transcript, along with pre-trial examinations, verdicts and judgement. I think of Reunion as a repository and how we use it I think depends on what we plan on doing with the data. And consider what would happen if we no longer had access to a source or we are unable to obtain images of it? But in this instance, I am considering writing an article about this man and this case. It makes sense to me to extract all the relevant points now or I might have to do it again later.

[Michael Talibard]

That does make sense. I don't think I have ever had to deal with a document of quite that magnitude - except of course a census, but in that case it is easy to pick out the pages one needs, and to make images and sources of these. Could you perhaps do what I often do with things like obituaries and newspaper articles - convert that court case transcript into a pdf and put it in multimedia?

[eventide]

Yes. In this instance I have been able to download it as a PDF and have attached it to my source as a backup. I do that regularly when possible.