Scott: To each his own, but I sincerely hope that Legacy users don’t jump on this particular bandwagon.
Years ago I was an FTM user and the sourcing capability was so weak that I too put everything in Notes. On switching to Legacy I found that converting those notes to proper sources was a major project. When the tools are there to allow doing it right, it's *so* much better to use them. Kirsten From: Scott Hall Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:09 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact? I'm similar to Michele in that I keep all "official" sources, but I track my sources in a different way -- via the Research Notes page. I do this because at the moment I am not intending on publishing such that I need official sources as end notes right now. At some point, I will have to consider how to move my source information. I *do* keep all sources in the master list, I just don't link to the data fields (some exceptions, such as events, apply). Instead I have a code system for all of my data within the Research Notes, such that I can see everywhere the data came from and what it said. For example, here are the research notes for my grandfather: ******* Name CEM-MoCC: Donald H. HALL CEN-US1920: Donald H. HALL CEN-US1930: Donald H. HALL OBIT-RDC: Donald H. HALL OBIT-RDC: Donald H. HALL (1) OBIT-RDC: Donald HALL (2) (3) PK-EGH: Donald Higgins HALL RCA-HMR: Donald HALL SSDI-RW: Donald HALL Birth CEM-MoCC: 1913 CEN-US1920: 6y [bet 2 Jan 1913 - 1 Jan 1914]; New York CEN-US1930: 17y [bet 2 Apr 1912 - 1 Apr 1913]; New York SSDI-RW: 6 Mar 1913 PK-EGH: White City, NY Death CEM-MoCC: 1976 OBIT-RDC: 15 Jun 1976 PK-EGH: Rochester, NY SSDI-RW: Jun 1976 Burial CEM-MoCC: West Webster Cem., Webster, NY OBIT-RDC: cal 18 Jun 1976; West Webster Cem., Webster, NY SSN SSDI-RW: 715-01-9675 Notes (1) Per father Fred's obituary [RIN 7]. (2) Per mother Nina's obituary [RIN 8]. (3) Per brother Gerald's obituary [RIN 38]. ******* You can see, for example, that his name is sourced from various places -- Cemetery records (CEM-MoCC), Census records (CEN-USxxxx), Obituaries (OBIT-xxx), Marriage records (RCA-HMR), the SSDI (SSDI-xx), and the personal knowledge of my father (PK-EGH). Scott On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, julia m <aga...@hotmail.com> wrote: I was just wondering how other people handle this? For example: You find someone's birthdate (or year) from a census, so you attach the census as the source. Later you read a few more things (obit, gravestone, etc) so you add those as sources to that piece of data. Then you finally receive a birth certificate that has the birthdate and you add that as a source. Do you drop off some of these other sources and let, in this instance, the birth certificate be the only source for that piece of data? How do I know when enough is enough--or is it never enough and I should keep adding sources as I find them?!? Thanks, Julia 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
