New England is not a location?

Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirsten Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 4:50 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Source titling question


Elizabeth:

Grouping by location is a fine way to handle certain records.  Most people
handle census records just that way and many others group vital records by
location.

As Angela pointed out, grouping by family is problematic when you run into
an extended family in a census.  And what do you do if you're lucky enough
to find records for several of your lines in Cutter's 1915 _New England
Families_, for example? (I have 23 different lines in that handy book.) Of course it would be ideal to go to the original records, but what if you just
can't because they no longer exist or are not available to the public?
Would you create 23 separate master sources--one for each surname?

You can certainly group by family if you like. Legacy is flexible enough to make later changes relatively easy. I've grouped and regrouped more than a
couple of times myself.

Kirsten



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Elizabeth Richardson
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 2:23 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source titling question


OK, why do we care that a particular *type* of source is listed with its
like? Why wouldn't we prefer the sources be grouped by location, or by
family?

e.g.

OHIO - death records
FERGUSON - Our Ferguson Family

Elizabeth
researching the descendants of William and Sarah (Patterson) Thompson






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