Hi Monty,
"I have several Death Certificates and Memory Cards and I need to know
what is the proper way to source them. Do all Death Certificates lump
together under Master Source, or do I put a master source for each
individual? I need an example of what goes in master source and what is
in detail source."
Either method you have mentioned is fine, as long as there is sufficient
detail given for locating the document again in the future.
You might like to search this list's archives on the two words "lumping"
and "splitting" - terms that have been given to just what you've described.
I started out as a splitter, though didn't know the term at that stage.
Each individual document I acquired, I set up a new Master Source for.
Along the way, with learning from reading this list, I realised that
this is going to be cumbersome as I gathered more documents, and I
didn't like that idea.
So, I started lumping similar documents together. Such as one Master
Source for all New Zealand birth certificates, one for all English birth
certificates, and so on. In the Source Detail I place the detail about
the particular document in question, in the Master is the general
commonalities, such as the title and author.
There is bound to be information about sourcing techniques on the Legacy
web site, or in the program's help files, so do take a look around to
see what's available as well as reading this list.
Hope this helps. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
--
Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
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