Hi Tim. I have a collection of letters and greeting cards (over 60 of them!) from my great-great-grandmother that she had sent to my great-grandparents. I have scanned some of the more interesting ones and transcribed others. Ive created a Word file to house this data and images. Above each image or transcription, Ive created a little introduction to show the date, place, who it was written/sent to, and names mentioned in it. The document contains an introduction, a table of contents and an index. The document is filed in a directory on disk called Sources/Correspondence. It, and the original letters, are physically filed in an archive box labelled Sources/Correspondence/<name> and date range.
The only time I use a particular letter as a source is if it specifically helps prove an event. For example, under the date she always wrote where she was writing from, which proves residence; mention of a name indicates the person was alive at the time, etc. Right now, Im referring to the compilation book as the source with an original data note, and reference to the particular letter in the detail. As for including them in the family history, I include a reference to her letters in the general Notes section. My plan is to publish the family tree with the correspondence book as an accompanying volume. I am doing something very similar with newspaper clippings. Dont know if that answers your question exactly, but hope something in this helps. Christine ________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Willis Sent: 10 September 2007 01:01 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Sources that are non event specific I am wondering how people in this group address sources that do not really give a specific event or date for someone in your database, but is just a reference to that person. Say you get a collection of letters between your grandparents and an uncle. There is nothing in those letters that give any specific information, but reading them gives value to understanding these people. Maybe some of these letters do not reference anyone at all (except the author).. So, you would physicallly file these letters with your family history. But would the letter itself become a source? It seems that anything you file could and should get cataloged as a source, and should be put into Legacy as a source, but not everything is attachable to any one person or event.. I supposed if nothing else, you could attach the source to the author as "Unspecified", but wouldn't that become unweildy on a report if you had 20 letters from that person? The letters themselves do not prove much of anything, but the stories add flair... Am I babbling? What I think I am trying to as is... Do people out there have sources in Legacy that is not attached to anyone? Is that a common practice? Tim W. from (not so sunny) Voorheesville, NY ________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
