Yeah, I agree with that also. It would complicate things and make more work for most people to have separate sources, I think. Instead, where there are different sources for the birth date and birth place, could you simply indicate:
Source for Date Source for Place or whatever, as part of the detail? I think that would be better than adding a field that many people would consider not needed for most records. --Jerry - http://www.MerriamFamilyTree.org On 02/20/2012 02:24 PM, Alan Pereira wrote: > I would prefer to apply one or more sources to the whole birth event and not > have to apply them separately to parts of the birth event. > Alan Pereira > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] > Sent: 20 February 2012 17:06 > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] suggestion I submitted > > On 20/02/2012 13:49, Michele Lewis wrote: >> I just submitted this suggestion. I hope other would want this too. >> >> “I think you should make it where the date of birth and the place of >> birth are separate fields when it comes to sourcing. >> >> Death certificates often give the place of birth for the deceased's >> parents but not the date. >> >> The census records also give a place of birth for the parents but not >> the date. >> >> If you use one of the above as a source for the date of birth/place of >> birth, it appears as though the source named both.†>> > > In an ideal world it would be good, but as I include all the details and/or > the full text in my Sources it is possible to see exactly what is being > Sourced by any particular citation. > > It's quite possible that I will know, from a variety of Sources that someone > was born on ddmmmyyyy in Anytown, County, Someland but some of the Sources I > cite might only give the date, or might only give the year, or might only > give the County or might only give the Country. By referring to the wording > of each ciation and any Citation Text I have included I can see precisely > what information came from where. > > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > 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 > > > > > 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 > > 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
