Everyone that responded to "Splitting vs Not" and the ancillary
thread (and that seems like it might have been everyone in the group!):
Thank you so much for each of your inputs. I agree with Ward, there
are lots of ways to enter sources that work and it appears to mostly
depend on your personal searching and filing style. All the advice
has given me (and other Legacy newbies that read the archives) many
methods and ideas to adapt to their own style. This discussion has
been invaluable and will save me lots of trying, then changing, then
changing, then changing! Unfortunately, I've got a bundle of sources
imported from Family Tree Maker and 10 years of sourcing without any
pattern so I have a lot of work ahead of me. Oh well, what's another
100 hours?
Again, thank you to everyone.
Cathy Vallevieni--Orange County, CA
P.S. I'm 15 minutes from Disneyland so if anyone gets out this way,
send me an e-mail and we can hook up. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 06:55 PM 7/8/2008, you wrote:
Cathy,
Seems like there are many different systems out there.
By 'title', I assume that you mean the 'name', which is internal and
for your own benefit (as opposed to the title that appears in
citations). I would recommend that you order the information for the
best sort order in the master source list. First of all, I would
always start with the word 'census'.
If you do want to split master sources all the way down to the
census page, here is the naming system that I fell into. (I will
have to shorten it, if I go back and lump my sources, of course.):
'Census, US 1900, Ohio, George Walker'
Of course the title and pub facts give lots more info about the
county, township, ED, page, microfilm roll, web site viewed on,
etc. The person's name may be the head of household, or possible
another person of special interest if the head of household is not a
person that I care about. This system seems to work well when I am
browsing the source list. Also, when I am viewing the assigned
sources for an individual, these names typically convey quickly what
I want to know about where I got the information, without even
clicking on individual lines to view the full citation. (Even after
viewing the citation, I might still have to bring up the source
detail panel to properly view my notes on exactly which bits of
information I relied on from that particular source.)
If I save the image as a file, I use a similar sort order for the filename.
If I were lumping, I would need to view the full citation and
perhaps the detail panel more frequently when browsing.
Keep in mind that by not using the new template feature, you have to
keep some notes or examples handy so that you can create each new
source in exactly the same pattern (including the title and pub.
facts, not just the name). Also, my system is a bit awkward if there
are multiple families of interest on the same census page.
Hope this gives you some more ideas.
Ward
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Vallevieni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 4:24 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Splitting vs Not
Again, I am just starting to use Legacy. I've seen lots of
messages over the weekend about splitting sources vs not splitting sources.
Can someone that does split sources (ie. 1820 Census may be listed
lots of times for each town in which you have an ancestor), please
tell me how they title the split sources (start with city then
county then state then list the document document or something else
goes first)?
Can you also tell me the key advantages of splitting (I understand
it's easy to find all the sources for a specific town or county or
state this way but are there others)?
Thanks.
Cathy Vallevieni--Orange County, CA
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