Nick,
There are about equal complaints about repeated and "too many" sources as 
there are about "too few" report sources in all of the genealogy software 
mailing lists. The only satisfactory method is to check the look of all 
reports and wall charts *during* data entry and decide how many sources you 
really need. Sometimes the "most important" source is listed after several 
guesses or estimates for the date or location of the same event.

Legacy 5 allowed "custom" sources lost in GEDCOM transfers to non-Legacy 
software so that was another issue for customers who found they were unable 
to use the much larger Legacy 6 program file. Some former Legacy list 
participants are trying to go from multiple child-mother and and 
child-father relationships with sources to a program limited to 
child-marriage relationships.

Cost of physical printouts or space required for a web site should be 
considered before "too many" sources are repeated. Legacy file owners will 
not want to pay for a web site large enough to include all sources for all 
names, and family members will not want to pay for printed books that are 
half or two-thirds endnotes with many repeats.

A complex database with a source for every variation of every event detail 
is a different family project than a database planned for *unedited* reports 
saved as PDF with all useful-size pictures. A Legacy file planned for the 
Narrative report requires different choices than a file planned for the 
Descendant report.

Legacy's short locations are not used by non-Legacy applications, etc. One 
of the Legacy 3 messages on this list about mid-2000 was about the time a 
user spent removing repeated locations and excess blank lines from a book 
report opened in a word processor. "Single space children" option still 
leaves double-spaced (listed) events for each child in a descendant book 
report.

My current problem is with unidentified spouse parents in a county full of 
neighbor and cousin marriages. Ancestry.ca subscription has a partial 
marriage index for Ontario but not the images of marriage registrations 
which had space for names of parents of each spouse. -- Elizabeth

----- Original Message ----- 
> When you do that all the source citations are removed
> including those related to the individual. I was
> hoping to selectively cut out the source citations for
> the other family members on the idividual report.
> Nick



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