Hi Wendy, Thanks for the info. I found several examples that Geoffrey Rasmussen has put on Legacy, I had just overlooked them. Oh, I think I use the lumper method, at least for most sourcing.
Have a good day, Monty Porter ----- Original Message ----- From: Wendy Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, March 15, 2008 23:05 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Source or Detail Source To: [email protected] > 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 > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/ > <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail- > archive.com/[email protected]/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/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
