Carol I think that still makes you a lumper as there are so many different ways you can "lump". There is also an infinity of stages in between the ultimate lumping and the ultimate splitting.
You are lumping because you list all information relevant to a source under one place. That is fine for church records where all baptisms, marriages and burials might come under one source of "parish records" or even, as seems to be your case, where multiple churches have been transcribed into one place (Gendalim 5?) This also works where you use an index of births, marriages and deaths as in the UK "FreeBMD" database or similar. But if you then obtain an individual certificate of the registration referred to by the index then you are quoting a more specific entity and that is where a source such as "Birth Certificate" might be used. You have, in your fifth example, actually used an event as a source "1840 England Census" (pedantically it was 1841), which is a typical form of lumping. Splitting would be to use something like "1841 England Census HO107/1234/16 Folio 25 Page 9 Schedule 6" As so many have said, it is horses for courses - as long as you are happy and you believe you have left enough evidence for a reader to verify your findings then choose your own method. Personally I put all my evidence and its source in the Notes section as I prefer to see everything in one place and so I (and others) don't have to go backwards and forwards into each event etc to try to recreate my own evidence, analysis and conclusion. Jack -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of familyjesse Sent: 03 January 2008 20:27 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7 and lumping/splitting I thought I was a lumper but I dont do it anything like this I do not group by family or country but by the sources themselves. Also, I never source in general terms like: marriage licence, birth certificate, death certificate the particular source is always named and sourced individually. Examples: 1. Gendalim 5 .. would include all baptisms, marriages, burials, baptisms and all locations, churches and individuals listed there including any variation in names. Under the individual record under details I would copy the actual details in which would include location, date, Church and witnesses. 2, Heer Churchbook Limburg, Catholic 3. Heer Churchbook, Limburg, Evangelishe The two sources above would include all the people and events [baptisms, marriages, burials] listed in that source. Although, these are the original sources noted in Gendalim 5, I source them separately as they are copied off original sources whereas Gendalim 5 is a summary transcription of the sources and contains some discrepancies and has less detail. 4. Family information handed down under this source, I would make additional notes as to exactly who the source was, their relationship and the date. That information would be entered in source detail for each event, not in the actual source record. 5. 1840 England Census [I might break it down by country: Scotland, England, Wales] My sources are just that, sources, not people and not events. Carol I will give it to you in a nutshell :) A lumper is someone who would enter a marriage certificate this way... The source would be Marriage License Then in the DETAILS you would record something like Lamar County, Mississippi marriage license #3005, Book C, page 42, 11 Dec 1910, John Doe and Jane Smith If you are a lumper you have a lot fewer sources. Your marriage license source might have 50 different marriage licenses recorded If you are a splitter then your source would look something like this... Marriage license of John Doe and Jane Smith, Lamar County, Mississippi, 11 Dec 1910, #3005, book C, page 42 you wouldn't have to add a detail at all. Everything you need is in the source itself. Each marriage license would an individual source. So, splitters have many, many more sources than lumpers. There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods. Many people use a combo of the two to best serve their needs. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1208 - Release Date: 1/3/2008 3:52 PM 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1207 - Release Date: 02/01/2008 11:29 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1207 - Release Date: 02/01/2008 11:29 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
