On 10 Jul 2016 at 1:03, Martha Graham wrote: > Back in 1999 when Mail Lists were in vogue, a lot of us shared > information via them and also personal communication. Sharing sets of > files as well as gedcoms. > > But, those bits and pieces wound up in General Notes because I had no > place else to put them. The info is, obviously, scattered among my > people. So, how do I preserve the original source of email addy and date along > with a brief explanation of what was sent?
E-mails I classify as letters. I record correspondence with a particular person, whether by e-maul, snail mail or mailing list (a variant of e-mail) as one master source, as "Correspondence with Name". In the detail section I put the date of the letter or e-mail, and put relevant quotes in the "Detail Test".When I file them under dates, the date I put in the Detail section is always in YYYY-MM-DD format, which means they are sorted in date order when you look at the sources for a particular person. I don't use Sourcewriter for correspondence, because I find it too cumbersome. It tends to create a separate master source for each letter or e-mail, and that just creates digital clutter. GEDCOMs I classify separately as Gedcoms, with the name of the person I received them from and the date of the Gedcom in the Master Source. In the detail section I put the name of the person and their ID number in the Gedcom.. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
