Ward: This may help with parts of your questions . . .
The Subsequent Citation format, I think, is mis-named to some degree. As the manual says, it's "used in the *same places* as the footnotes/endnotes but uses a different format that doesn't require as much room." So rather than actually being "subsequent," it's really just an abbreviated form of the footnote/endnote citation with only minimal details included. I haven't experimented with many report formats, but perhaps on some you can choose to use either the full citation or the "subsequent" citation format. And yes, the detail does have to be identical. If you "tweak" it in the slightest, whether in the individual's record or in the detail on the Source Clipboard, it becomes a new citation. And depending on where you're doing the tweaking, that might account for the different results you're seeing in reports. I tend to use the Comments section to point out discrepancies in records and/or to explain why I believe one record to be correct rather than another. I'd also combine all my comments about a single record into one statement rather than breaking them into what would then be separate citations. If your detail quotes text exactly, I don't see the need to add a comment saying that this particular citation includes a middle name, for example. It's just stating the obvious. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ward Walker Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 6:15 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Subsequent source citations -- when generated? I clearly don't understand subsequent citations yet. The manual and the Help are not helpful. In the example that I am working with, I have cited the master source (a collection of death records) 4 times for one individual (birth, death, death cause, and research notes). I have been using the source clipboard and sometimes tweaking the wording of the source detail and sometimes not, since all 4 citations are for the same death record in the collection. I am using the SourceWriter. The result is that in the Individual and Family Group reports, their is a single footnote. The detail matches one of my citations. (Perhaps the last one edited? I haven't fully tested this.) In the Descendant Narrative report, there are 2 footnotes. Both are in the Footnote/Endnote Citation format, not in the Subsequent Citation format. One is used for the birth footnote, the other for the death and cause of death footnotes, and both are referenced from the Research Notes, even though the source is cited only once from there. So, when would it _ever_ be possible to generate a 'subsequent citation'? Does the detail have to be identical, including the unpublished comments in the detail? Does it have anything to do with whether the clipboard was used to create the citation? Is it a bug that my birth and death citations are collapsed into a single footnote, even though I have used different detail wording? Is it a bug that my single Research Notes citation results in references to 2 different footnotes? Aside: My understanding of the EE book is that it is sometimes desirable to add a few words to the published portion of the citation about which information is pertinent to the current citation. (E.g., the source might be cited only to clarify what somebody's middle initial stands for.) And if you do not do that, then at least you should clarify in the comments which you have excluded from the citation which bit of information you are sourcing. So the source detail will frequently be slightly different in each citation of the master source, even when dealing with a single record or a single line on a census. Ward 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
