Hi Cathy
Yes - you're right. The way I do it every family census report is a new
Master Source - rather like every Vital Record Certificate (or BMD as we say
over here). This really arose from the days before the British Census
records were transcribed and made easily available, and the only
transcriptions were the LDS 1881 records. At that time I used a program from
Generations (FTM I think) and this method of recording sources and citations
seemed to work. There weren't so many User Groups with available advice in
those days and you really just worked out your own system.
Now of course it would be a major exercise to change all my Master Sources
and Citations to the Mills format - an exercise which I am somewhat
frightened to start in case I lose anything. The only thing is that the end
result - the report, webpage or printout - is the same whether the detail is
in the source or the citation.
However - you have raised a few doubts - and maybe a "rationalising" project
is being lined up for when I retire in a few years time.
regards
David
- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Issue re: entering Sources for Events
Hi David,
I meant that you can't use Show List as easily to show everyone that
you've found in a particular census - only the members of a particular
household. You'd need to highlight all the Master Sources for a particular
year to get that.
For my way of thinking of Sources and Source Details, you are using the
each Source Detail as a new Master Source. It's like making every page in
a book a separate Master Source.
Cathy
At 06:35 AM 23/06/2006, you wrote:
Hi Cathy
Not quite sure why I've made Show List irrelevant. It works.
I have one master source for each family in a census, with all family
members linked to it. Show List (and Source Report) correctly identifies
each linked person.
Every person in that report has an event "18_1 Census" which is linked to
that Master Source. The detailed text of the Event includes the address
and the other members of the family, and the event has a scanned or
downloaded copy of the census linked to it.
Although this is a bit of duplication I do it so that everyone's Pedigree
web-page contains this information in the Noted Events section. As far as
I'm aware you can't show the Source Detail information in the Noted Events
section of the Pedigree web-page.
David
At 3:02 AM June 22, 2006 you wrote
Of course you can enter your sources as you do but you'll end up with a
very unwieldy Source list and you are missing the power of Master Sources
and Source Detail combination.
You've made Show List irrelevant.
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