I consider myself middle of the road, but may lean more toward splitting than
lumping, though I think there must be extreme lumpers (putting all newspapers
in one source would be an extreme lumper IMO) and extreme splitters (making a
separate master source for each census household would be an extreme splitter).
I recently spent a lot of time cleaning up the mess I've made all these years
by not having a consistent method for naming sources (and by importing my
database into Legacy several years ago from another program). I did something
similar to what Dede and Kirsten suggested, except that I used primarily a
locality based naming pattern, e.g. Illinois - Wayne Co. Cemetery Records,
Illinois - Wayne Co. Newspapers, etc.. This tells me a lot at a glance about
the quality/thoroughness of my research in a specific locality.
The exceptions were things like Correspondence and Military records (which in
the US are mostly at a national level), and items that are strictly surname
based.
My point is: if you lean toward splitting and do thorough research, you will
probably eventually have hundreds of sources, so choose a naming/categorization
method that makes sense to you and use it consistently. Otherwise, you may end
up with the same source entered multiple times under different names, and have
to spend several days cleaning it up, like I just did.
If you're an extreme lumper, though, you have it easy: just call it Newspapers
<g>
Connie
--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Dede Holden <deanbuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Dede Holden <deanbuc...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] A question about Sourcing
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Date: Monday, December 22, 2008, 11:48 AM
> Phil,
>
> I concur with Kirsten. I have several different newspapers
> as
> sources. In my Master List they are named
> "Newspaper:Jackson Daily
> News," etc. This does indeed help you to quickly see
> if you already
> have a newspaper listed as a Master Source. I do the same
> thing with
> Books, Letters, Military Records, among others. I am sure
> I don't
> have as many sources as some on this list, but right now,
> this system
> is working for me. (By the way, I consider myself to be a
> "splumper,"
> splitting some sources and lumping others.)
>
> I'd like to hear if someone has a different view and
> why, especially
> if they have a large number of sources.
>
>
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