Boyd, In the Source Detail entry screen there is a place for ID of person.
I guess I'm more of a lumper when it comes to birth certificates, since most of mine are issued in the state of Miss. Legacy seems to lean toward lumping birth certificates, since the ID for each person is at the Detail level. However, even though you are citing each birth certificate as a Master Source, you can still enter the ID of the person at the Detail level for that Master Source. Does that make sense? Dede Holden On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Boyd Miller <bo...@vodafone.net.nz> wrote: > I treat each birth, marriage and death certificate as a master source > because information from each certificate relates to a number of different > people. A birth certificate can give father's and mothers full names, ages > (hence approximate birth date), occupations and birthplaces, parents > marriage date and place, and birth informant. Other certificates similarly > have data on several people apart from the certificate subject person(s). > > I am trying to cite a birth certificate issued in Scotland. The template for > a birth certificate comes from "Birth records>Birth certificate>All > countries except.>Created at state/provincial level>basic format" (Most > other options within this certificate string get you to a similar set of > fields) > > There does not appear to be a field to record whose birth the certificate > relates to. > > If I use this master source to, for instance, source the parent's marriage > place or the father's occupation, there is no way in the printed out source > list that comes from this template, to tell which certificate the > information was taken from. I can title the document in the Source List Name > to uniquely identify it, but that does not print out in the reports. > > The same issue relates to citing marriage and death certificates - there > does not appear to be a field to record the name of the principal player. > These templates are thus of no use at all, or am I missing something? Do I > have to go back to the Basic source format and use the Title field to get a > source that tells me whose birth is being recorded? > > How does anybody else cite a birth certificate? > > Boyd 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
