Boyd Miller 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 don't see that your reasoning above is valid. Just because a Source
relates to several different people, it doesn't follow that you have to
create a new Master Source for every similar document. That's what
Source Detail is for. "Master Source" is for generalities - things that
are likely to be repeated over and over, such as the fact that it's a
Birth Certificate, that it was issued in a certain Country by a certain
Authority. "Source Details" is for, not surprisingly, the details -
things that won't be the same for every similar document, such as that
the Birth Certificate is for Joe Bloggs or Fanny Adams.
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.
No, for the reasons I have given above. That field, is in the Source
Details
I think you would be well advised to re-think how you tackle Master
Sources and make more use of Source Details.
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Jenny M Benson
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