Do not put the details of the event in the Master Source. Keep the Master Source lean and simple. A Police Officer uses the Vehicle Code as a reason to stop a speeder, then he writes a CITATION using the Vehicle code ( example: CVC22350, speed exceeding 55 MPH), as the Master Source. He/She then includes the details such as Your Speed, Location, Time and Conditions on the CITATION. The Master Source remains simple and lean ( CVC22350) and will be used on many other citations with different details, but the citation for excessive speed will always cite the same Master Source.
Try this website, it was a help to me. www.progenealogists.com/commoncitations.htm Keep plugging away at this Source stuff and it will become crystal clear, soon. Joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:41 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] An argument for splitting? (knowing I may get "lumps" for this) Hi Pat, Basically it sounds as if you are only using the Source Details sections of a source just for comments rather than for the true Source Detail. Taking your example: I'd make The Snider Family GenForum a Master Source and put the details of a particular posting in the Source Detail. or, to use a more common example as I'm not familiar with GenForums. A Census is a Master Source. (whether you make the Master Source the census for a particular country (English Census) or for a particular country for a particular year (1841 Census) or for a state (1860 Census for Michigan) or county - depending on how much of a splitter you are). Regardless of how you've lumped or split, I think a particular census household, belongs in the source detail. I put the reference in the Source Detail and a transcription of the household in the Source Detail text. To put the actual household in the Master Source is to completely ignore the structure of having Master Sources and Source Details. It can be done and it may suit you better but you need to be aware that you aren't using Legacy sourcing as designed. Adding to the confusion, Legacy isn't consistent on its use of terminology for the Source Details. Sometimes it uses Citation or Citation Details for the Source Details and sometimes Citation refers to one whole use of a Source - Master source plus the details. Cathy At 11:10 AM 24/09/2007, you wrote: >I still don't understand. The first time you cite a master source, you have >a citation. Then you might cite it a second time, a third time, etc. > >For example, let's take a Genforum website as a source of info. > >For Source List Name I have > "Snider Family GenForum #1207" >For author I have > "S . . . , , A. . . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" >For title I have > "Schneiders/Sneider on the ship Allen, 17[29], > Snider Family GenForum #1207" >For publication data, I have > #1207 23 Apr 2001 > Genealogy.com presents GenForum > http://genforum.genealogy.com > C 2005 MyFamily.com, Inc. > >I might cite that specific source for info entered on several different >people in my database. (And I might rate some of the info as a "2" for >reliability and some as a "4" -- and none of it as a "1" since it's not a >primary source.) If the post contains a reference to a primary source (or a >secondary account for that matter) I may add in the "detail" : "citing >Botetourt County,VA, Will Book A, p295" or something of the sort.) > >Then if I have another post from the Snyder >GenForum, I just pull up that source, make the >necessary changes, save it (choose option 2) to >a New Master Source (Legacy for reasons unknown to me calls it a "copy"). > >Does this make sense? > >-- > >Pat > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Willis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> >Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 7:16 AM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] An argument for splitting? (knowing I may get >"lumps" for this) > > >Hi Pat, Sorry for my vagueness.. > >I was just wondering that with the splitting method, it appears that you >would always use a master source and never(?) use the source citation? Is >that correct, if not, when do you use the citation? OR, do I have this all >mixed up? > >Tim 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 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
