I see your predicament. One thing that could really help you is using
the Source Clipboard. If you set it up the way you want it once, you can
then paste it over where else you used it and want to replace. That's
still quite long for alot of different people.
I'm thinking there might be other shortcuts but I'm on my way out of
town for a few days, so I'm running this morning. I might be able to
catch up to this later tonight from my hotel. Maybe somebody else can
pick this up and run with it before then.
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JL
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tamieh wrote:
You are pretty quick to pick up on "info".... Let me see if I can
explain it clearly --- I am quite anal about my sources....
What I currently have on some of my master sources are (from my early
days! before I knew better) I have "Death Certificate -- Mary Selby"
and then under the "text of source" tab I have transcribed the actual
death certificate. See? Pretty Anal hunh?
What I actually want to do is to have the master source cite "Death
Certificate" and then have Mary Kinnard appear under "source detail"
and the transcribed portion of the death certificate to appear under
the "detail text" tab.
This is going to be difficult for me to go thru and change each one
individually since I have used the death certificates to source/cite
burial place, death date, parents names, birth date, and I even use it
for an event for the person who was the informant for the death
certificate.
Does that help to clarify why a search and replace here would be
soooooo nice???
Tamie
----- Original Message ----- From: "JLB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] search and replace ?
Ahem ... I'm still waiting to find out what the OP meant by 'info'.
In the case of BMD's, depending where they come from, they may
include a text rendition, starting with the person's name and then a
tidy column listing everything else, in which case I copy and paste
the entire thing into Source Detail. I also clean up and link the
original image. If the name is different than other variations found
elsewhere I most likely make a note of that under Comments.
What I was imagining when OP said 'info' was perhaps just putting the
name - I dunno, just because - which did, and still does, seem
redundant.
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JL
JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists
http://www.jgen.ws/jlog
Jenny M Benson wrote:
JLB wrote
You don't need to put the person's name into the Source Detail
field. The source is already attached to each relevant person.
I would take issue with that!
Quite apart from any other reason, it makes for consistency with
other Sources where you do need to quote the relevant name. For
example, you might use a Christening Record as a Source for a
parent's name, so the Citation would include the name of the person
being Christened.
Also, you should cite the record exactly as it is, which may include
variations of spelling or a transcription error or other mistake.
For example, my tree includes individuals with the middle name
Merrison, but many of the BMD Indexes record this name as Morrison,
so I cite either Merrison or Morrison, whichever is written there.
(I *think* e is correct and o incorrect, but not sure.)
If you are following the dictates of Elizabeth Shown Mills (not
saying you necessarily *should*!) you will include the individual's
name in the citation, at least in BMDs.
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