Gail,
What is the correct way to enter census records?
Would the Master Source be : 1850 United States Federal Census
and the Detail be: Pennsylvania, Bradford,
Burlington, Page 22, Dwelling 8, Family 9
or Master: Pennsylvania, Bradford,
Burlington - 1850 U.S. Census
Detail Page 22, Dwelling 8,
Family 9
Thanks,
Lee
Gail Rich Nestor wrote:
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?
Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE
research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users
of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at
http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp
Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/
To unsubscribe please visit:
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE
research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of
Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at
http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp
Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/
To unsubscribe please visit:
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE
research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of
Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp
Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/
To unsubscribe please visit:
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to
Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter
online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp
Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/
To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
