I, too, try to use the EE organizational method. Since I am a "splitter," however, I also have some under surname, given name - item: Walker, Helton Rutherford - personal correspondence.
Janis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirsten Bowman Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:03 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Source titling question To expand on Jenny's post just a little, Elizabeth Shown Mills (_EE_, p 67) discusses the "quagmire" that can be created if there's no sound organization to your Master Source List. She recommends organizing sources into groups, and since Legacy 7 is apparently giving the option to use her methods, those recommendations might be of interest. The groups are: - author and title (for published or authored sources); - collections (for manuscript sources); - geographic locales; - repositories; - source types. Like Jenny, I group most records by source type. For books, however, I put "bk" before the title in the short form of the name only and this forces book titles to all sort together in the Master Source List without having the "bk" designation show in the finished product. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:16 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source titling question Angela Gabbard wrote >One caution though.... if you sort everything by an individual's name >you will inevitably run into the case where the source is referring to >2 or more people. Are you going to have the source twice under each >person's name or somehow remember that one source is for multiple people. This, I think, is one of the major arguments against including individual's names in Source Names - other, perhaps, than correspondence with a particular person. So many Source documents will be relevant to several people: Censuses usually encompass a whole family, a Birth Certificate relates to a child and his parent(s),. a Marriage Certificate relates to 2 people and their fathers (maybe more in non-English ones) and so on. My Sources are filed strictly according to type, not according to the person(s) to whom they relate. Each has a reference no which is recorded on the Source Details tab and every Individual referred to in that Source is labelled (on the Source) with their UserID. This makes it very easy to refer backwards and forwards between my Source Documents and the people in my Family File. -- Jenny M Benson 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
