I have three master sources set up, one each for births, marriages and deaths
for certificates I've received from the GRO in the UK. Each of the master
sources is set up with the basic detail that is common to all certificates of
its type, and then I put the specifics for a particular certificate in the
detail, sufficient for someone else to reproduce the results if they so desired.
For example, for births the source list name is "Birth Certificate - GRO" for
easy identification in my master source list. The title is "Certified Copy of
an Entry of Birth", the author is "General Register Office". I haven't put any
other information in the master source. In the detail for the specific
certificate I put something along the lines of "Eliza PLAYFORTH, Dec q 1850
Pocklington vol 23 page 88".
When I produce a report, the source notes say:
"General Register Office, Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth, Eliza PLAYFORTH,
Dec q 1850 Pocklington vol 23 page 88"
I originally started out with a separate master source for each individual
certificate, but after setting a few up realised that this method would produce
exactly the result I wanted without cluttering my master source list with
hundreds of nearly-identical entries. I may have got the idea from something
posted to this list - I don't recall the details now.
I've also started doing similar master source entries for certificates and
registrations from other countries, so I have master sources that are for a
*type* of document, rather than one individual document amongst a mass of
similar ones, and use the detail line to distinguish between them. I've done
the same with sources named "Website", "Newspaper" and other classes of sources,
and put the pertinent information in the detail, so what is printed in reports
is enough for someone to reproduce my findings - if it's something publicly
available.
Hope this helps. :-)
Wendy Howard
Kaiwaka, New Zealand
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