I made templates long before the "Source Writer" and still use that method. I select the template add my specifics and save as a new source. I also use the person's name as well as the Memorial #.
Marie Marie Varrelman Melchiori, CG, CGL Melchiori Research Services, L.L.C. --------------------------------------------------------------- CG, Certified Genealogist and CGL, Certified Genealogical Lecturer are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists ® , used under license by Board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations. In a message dated 8/3/2012 11:55:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ml...@comcast.net writes: I use the URL as a generic source, then simply paste the copied memorial number in the citation text that pops up; Example: Find A Grave Memorial# 50043453 Example of how the source could look in the sources Index at the end of the report: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi, 'Find A Grave', Find A Grave Memorial# 50043453. … or (a different way of formatting the source) 'Find A Grave' - http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi, Find A Grave Memorial# 50043453. When you go to the Find A Grave website search page, simply copy and paste the memorial number …. 50043453 … into the spot for the memorial number, click on search and you’re taken directly to the sourced memorial. Each FAG memorial is assigned a unique number and there is a spot on the search page to insert this number, if known. This number is found in the very last line of each memorial, under the contributors name and date the memorial was created. Quick and easy way to locate the sourced memorial at “Find A Grave”. Oops, just read the original question. I don’t use the new source writer; still use the basic sources for formatting my sources. Will go ahead and post this, as it might help someone like me who still uses the original Legacy basic source formatting. Mary From: Syble Glasscock [mailto:syble_...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 9:13 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to source Find A Grave The problem that I see with that is that many of FAG memorials do not have any of these, they only have name, date/dates and place of burial. Since I prefer to lump sources together I want one source for FAG. I use the generic source, title it Burial Records-findagrave with the URL as _http://www.findagrave.com/_ (http://www.findagrave.com/) . I add it to the source to the clipboard, then when I'm ready to add FAG records, I create the Event "Burial Records-findagrave" I add the information that's available, such as "family links, personal &/or tombstone photo/photos, and who submitted it and when. With the Edit Detail>Text/Comments, I add the URL for the particular memorial, having checked the box "Add this Text to the Source Citation on Reports." Syble From: Gene Adams <_ca1skibum@yahoo.com_ (mailto:ca1ski...@yahoo.com) > To: _LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com_ (mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com) Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to source Find A Grave Here is how I do it: Use Source Writer > Cemetery Records > Grave Markers, Plaques, tombstones, monumental inscriptions > online images Then the following appears neat and clean: Footnote/Endnote Citation: Jim Tipton, Find a Grave, digital images (_http://www.findagrave.com/_ (http://www.findagrave.com/) ). Subsequent Citation: Jim Tipton, Find a Grave. Bibliography: Jim Tipton. Find a Grave. Digital images. _www.findagrave.com_ (http://www.findagrave.com/) : Nov 28, 2006. When it comes to citation, then you just add the name as the item of interest, the date, and in the text tab comments on the citation: Created by: Marla M. from MO. Record added: Jan 23, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 64599174 Gene A From: Cynthia <_cindy@mckelleb.org_ (mailto:ci...@mckelleb.org) > To: _LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com_ (mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com) Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 10:11 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] How to source Find A Grave Hello Everyone, I know in the source writer we have an option for cemetery records. But, how would you source Find A Grave? Is there a source we can add to the source writer? Or am I not seeing something? 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