Lee, although I entered sources for all my information from the beginning, I
had to build up a sufficient base of sources before I could start to see
patterns and standardize my formats. For example, I used to create a
separate new source for each death certificate I had on file. Now that I
have so many, I set the master source as something like: "Vital Records for
North Carolina." This is more like a repository, but I found that I like
the master sources at a higher level. Others may not.
For me, cemeteries are listed as a master source and the individual stones
are in the details. If the tombstone information came from a Rootsweb site
or other internet source, I cite that database as the source and still keep
the "grave marker listing" as the source. It's good to also list the "date
accessed," for internet sources, but I have not been as diligent with this.
The more genealogy I do, the more I find that little tweaks in my sources
here and there are needed. Just start off entering a source such that you
can find it again in the future. That is the primary goal. Later, you can
develop style changes that help make sources look more uniform without
having to re-enter them all.
Hope this help make you feel a little better! :-)
Gail
www.roots2buds.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Weed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Editing Sources
Gail and Bill,
Thank you for your input, hopefully I'll learn to be a little more patient
when entering information in the future and won't need to do this again.
:-(
Lee
Gail Rich Nestor wrote:
Hi Lee, I recently went back and edited many of my source details to make
them more uniform. I wanted all tombtone data to read the same (or at
least be in a standardized format), and all my personal source info. to
be the same, etc.
If you go to Reports > Books/Other, you will see choice for a Source
Citation Report. You have several options of what to include. I went
back and tagged all sources of a common type (e.g. all census, all
cemeteries, all newspapers, etc.) so I could narrow my focus on just that
one source type. Even so, it can be a lot to read through, but I saved
it as a PDF file and then toggled between the PDF and Legacy and made the
needed changes. In some cases, I printed the report, but most times it
was too long to print.
Use Search and Replace to make the broad changes. Best of luck!
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Georgia, USA
www.roots2buds.net (you can see my source citations and details here)
"Lee Weed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been struggling with properly entering source and source detail
information. I would like to go back and review all of my sources and
details to correct my many mistakes. In the source master list it only
lists the sources without any of the detail, is there a way to view a
list of all the people that is linked to a particular source?
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