Michele has given you the link to a very popular webinar.
You don't have to be a professional to need to cite your sources in a
way that someone else can understand - that someone could be you in a
few years time.
There's nothing wrong with using Basic Sources.
The most important thing to get your head around is Master Sources and
Source Detail. Together they provide everything you or someone else
needs to know to find the source (or to know why they can't find it
because it's from a document/Family Bible/etc that you own or saw when
you visited Uncle John.)
A book is easy.
The book is the Master source and the page is the Source Detail.
But what about something you find on FamilySearch?
The easiest way to source FamilySearch data is to create a Basic Source
with the Master Source just saying FamilySearch in the Source List Name
(which is your finding aid for refinding a Master Source) and
FamilySearch in the Title.
Then you can copy and paste the FamilySearch source to the Source Detail
- sometimes it will fit in the Source Detail box but often it's too
long, so put it in the Source Detail Comment and checkmark that to be
included. The transcription is copy and pasted into the Source Detail
text and not normally included in the citation.
The same can be done with the source that Ancestry provides.
With the SourceWriter simply remember that you don't have to put
something in every available box. These are general templates that don't
always apply.
For online databases and online databases with original images, you can
use the SourceWriter internet templates for these.
The name of the particular database goes in the Master Source. In the
source detail something like "entry for Joe Bloggs" and in the credit
line - where Ancestry etc got the information.
This can be more useful than putting all Ancestry sources into one
Master Source. It's an advanced step but you can more easily find which
people you've looked for and found in a particular database if you have
a Master Source for each database.
It's much harder adding sources later but no reason not to start. Use
tags to indicate that you have sourced everything you've entered for
that person. The source icon lights up with just one source so isn't
useful for letting you know that you still have work to do.
Have fun - I'm still cleaning up sources that I entered when I first
started that fortunately still make some sense to me but wouldn't to
anybody else.
Cathy
Michele/Support <mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com>
Thursday, 13 July 2017 5:19 AM
Have you watched Geoff’s free webinar, Sources and Citations Made
Simple, Standard, and Powerful? It definitely takes the mystery out
of it.
https://familytreewebinars.com/download.php?webinar_id=201
Michele Simmons Lewis, CG
Legacy Family Tree
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*From:* LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Dennis
Birke
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 12, 2017 4:50 PM
*To:* legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
*Subject:* [LegacyUG] Help With Citing Sources
I’ve been using Legacy for a number of years, but never bothered to
record sources. I’d like to start citing sources, but I’m finding
using Source Writer very cumbersome and time-consuming to use. I’m
not a professional, and don’t need professional-quality citations.
I’d just like to record sources of information in a consistent and
systematic way so that future generations of my family have some idea
where I found the recorded information. Is there a webinar, tutorial,
manual, etc. that can provide me with some basic instructions on
citing sources and/or using Source Writer? I think I need something
akin to “Source Writer for Dummies”. I’d appreciate any suggestions
you have.
Dennis Birke <mailto:dpbi...@gmail.com>
Thursday, 13 July 2017 4:50 AM
I’ve been using Legacy for a number of years, but never bothered to
record sources. I’d like to start citing sources, but I’m finding
using Source Writer very cumbersome and time-consuming to use. I’m
not a professional, and don’t need professional-quality citations.
I’d just like to record sources of information in a consistent and
systematic way so that future generations of my family have some idea
where I found the recorded information. Is there a webinar, tutorial,
manual, etc. that can provide me with some basic instructions on
citing sources and/or using Source Writer? I think I need something
akin to “Source Writer for Dummies”. I’d appreciate any suggestions
you have.
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