Re: [LegacyUG] Where to Enter Obits?

[P V Hays]

I put my obits in the notes section and usually type out everything -- sometimes omitting pallbearers but have found they have given clues.  I show SR (for Sentinel Record), date of newspaper and sometimes page (but usually forget that) and then the obit.  If I decide not to type in the obit but am using info from the obit for the source of dod, etc., I type in the dod, pod and whatever and show a source that I have created that says obituary name of newspaper and town and state of newspaper.  Then in details, I show the date and sometimes page of newspaper.  If I don't know name of newspaper (it was just given to me), I just show obituary with a detail of unknown newspaper. 

 

I have found obits to be a wonderful source of info.  It is hard to figure out who the parents are of surviving children (due to remarriage, etc) but a lot of them show dob, pob, parents names of deceased and spouses.  I realize that info could have errors in it but so can the death certificate as usually the informant for the dc is the same as the informant for the obit.  Obits are also a great source of a photo (even though it is sometimes not of the best quality).  One must be careful, however, to remember copyrights.

 

I think I will try the way of adding the obit after the death info but I won't show the person who gave me the obit as the source -- don't get that??  They are not giving the info -- they just saved the newspaper -- am I not correct?

Monty Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

"Death Notes" works best for me. It is reached by clicking on the "+" sign
at the end of the death location field on the "Individual Information"
screen. Also prints out well in reports.

Including the text in the obit source does not seem to work well, as it
separates all the good obit information from the rest of the personal data.

The name of the "nice person" sending you obits is your source! You could
add a note with details, such as her relationship to you, her address, and
that her original source is unknown.

Monty

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Heckman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 11:55 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Where to Enter Obits?


> Hi LUG'ies!
>
> Just curious--where do most of you enter the actual text of an obituary?
>
> Should the obituary text be entered under a person's Events, cite the
> Source, then in the Source Details window, do most of you enter the obit
> under the Text tab?
>
> Further, I have this nice person in my family who sends me tons of
> obituaries (what a blessing!)of family members, many of whom I am
> unfamiliar. It's great to get the obits, but she doesn't include any of
> the source infomation: eg. newspaper name, published date, page, column.
>
> How would you enter this obituary information? Create an "Unknown" source,
> or create an "Obituary-on-File" source, then enter the obit in the Source
> Details window?
>
> Just wanna know what most of you do in these situations.
>
> Thanks for the input!
>
> Richard Heckman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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