Paula, That is a good approach and quite effective; in my local genealogy classes I emphasize that it is not so important how you document, but that you do and the important thing is for someone else to find the source and citation, using your notes. I may not previously mention, but I am the "family historian" for a 300 member family association and we are working on a hundred year of family register update. There is a lot of information exchange and the least effort that allows someone else finding the source citation is what is sought. Very little text is keep in the notes section as it is hard, for me at least, to remember, what I said about whom. Sometimes there are frustration, but in the end a lot of fun. Leonard
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:35:20 -0800 (PST) Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> writes: Leonard, If I am reading you correctly, I don't go so far as to indicate in the census detail citation which piece(s) of information are supported. I mean, I attach the detail citation to the pieces / fields that are supported, but I am not trying to print that out. I have the little source citation number next to the field in the report (I'm mostly using FGR these days) and the detail census citation on the source page at the end. For example, for a new sibling of one of my direct line ancestors, I would typically cite the census on the name and birth date/place fields, plus I would add a census event (I write all the other info in a narrative fashion in the Notes: "She was 12 years old, and attended school that year."). I typically have other/more citations on the name and birth date/place for those in my direct line, so the census may have just been the starting point for the year and state. Definitely, the new siblings would have a date range based on the age and the census date (except 1900 where the month & year of birth are given) and a state. I may or may not pursue more information on the siblings. Wow, got a bit wordy! Oh, if I were running a book report (ancestor, descendent), the citations do include the head of household, so that keeps them separate... not all lumped into one "US 1900 Illinois Cook Co." citation, for example. (I don't lump further than county.) --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ____________________________________________________________ Banks Forced to Forgive Credit Card Debt See how much of your debt could be settled! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4f3d1d4fb720613001a5st02vuc Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
