Ron: Regarding the second paragraph of your post: When the gedcom format was created sourcing was not a particularly important issue but things have changed. To illustrate, my 414-page manual for FTM 2.0 (ca 1994) contains a whole 1-1/2 pages on recording sources. I haven't counted the sourcing pages in Legacy's new manual but I'm sure it's a good deal more than that. With that sort of evolution, I'd vote for the newer "authorities" as being more correct than the older ones.
Your point about there being no one answer to sourcing is absolutely true, and therein lies the problem. There are established standards for source citations in other fields (law, science, journalism, literature, etc.) and I believe they're internationally-accepted, but none of these fit genealogical sourcing very well. All Ms. Mills has done is to study the various styles, pick elements from each that work for genealogy, and propose a new standard. Eventually a genealogical standard will be accepted. It may be "EE-style" or it may be something else, and it may be years away, but I'm pretty confident that it will happen. Meanwhile, the Legacy templates are a great tool to help us muddle through--and independent souls can continue to do their own thing. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 1:20 PM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] V7 Sources: Nifty formatting lost in gedcom output Gail, You may well be right. As I think you probably know, I have little time for prescribed or even proscribed formats, having only one belief, and that is that the sourcing must be clear and reproducible. Even so I have tried out most of the templates which relate to my sources, and have mixed views regarding the output. I have decided to change some eg. English censuses and BMDs, but am still considering others. Your comment re Gedcom structure does, however, lead to an interesting question and that is: what is the correct format for a source - that upon which the body which created the Gedcom format used or Mrs Mills? Whichever, it does illustrate that there is no one answer to sourcing. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ Update your British Prime Ministers Timeline - Blogs http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
