Elizabeth Shown Mills has come out with a laminated folder. Title:
Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Resources Published by Genealogical
Publishing Co.
The folder covers Census Images, Census, Indexes and databases, Digital,
Articles and Books, Historical Records, Land Entry Records, Newsletter and
Newspaper Items, Passenger Lists, Social Security Death Index, and Vital
Records.
I guess the purpose is to enable easy storage at your computer and to help
people out prior to the release of the new book. They sell out every
genealogy meeting we have.
It sure helps to pull it out and be able to enter sources correctly in
Legacy.
Diane Murach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gail Rich Nestor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Renaming sources
Hi Nick, two bits of advice:
1) When Elizabeth Shown Mills' new "Evidence Explained" book comes out
(hopefully later this year), buy it! I certainly plan to.
2) Think about your end goals as you decide how to format things.
For me, I post my research (sources and all) to the web, so that is
different than trying to write a book, where text flow is very important.
If I write a scholarly article (which I someday plan to do), I'm sure I
will
do a whole lot of editing outside of Legacy.
If you don't plan to have a large database, you can customize more. As
the
database size grows, you have to think about efficiencies and
standardization. It has taken me a few years to sort of get comfortable
with my sources (formatting within the individual sources and formatting
for
use as part of the overall database).
Good luck and just remeber that the search and replace feature (if used
carefully) can be your friend in making broad changes to the source
structure.
Gail Rich Nestor
www.roots2buds.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Cirillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Renaming sources
> I'm relatively new at this but cannot find a way to
> steamline my sources. The way I do it now, mostly by
> instinct, makes for an ugly and redundant individual
> report. The only way I can make that more neat is to
> drop sources all together, not what I had in mind.
> Also, I would like my source citations to come as
> close to the "standard" as possible. I read these
> postings with hope and anticipation.
> Nick Cirillo
>
> --- Gail Rich Nestor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I went back and forth on my sources for a while and
>> finally decided to
>> consolidate my master sources quite a bit. I
>> currently have 604 master
>> sources and literally tens of thousands of citation
>> details.
>>
>> Many times I have the exact same master source
>> combined with the exact same
>> citation detail and they are used in combination to
>> document several facts
>> for a single person (or a single fact for several
>> people). An example is
>> when every member of a particular household gets the
>> same master source
>> (i.e. in my files: Georgia, Decatur County, 1860
>> census) and the same
>> citation detail (i.e. John Doe household, page x,
>> Ancestry.com, etc.)
>> connected to each of their names and their birth
>> dates. It's very redundant
>> to have these entered multiple times in the database
>> and taking up space.
>> This is definitely a drawback to the way I handle
>> sources now.
>>
>> Other times, though, I have the same master source
>> as used above (same
>> county and census year), but with a different
>> citation detail (i.e. a
>> different household).
>>
>> I do wish that I could somehow link one particular
>> citation detail to one
>> master source and link it a single time to several
>> different people/facts.
>> That would make my database more tidy I think. Yet
>> it would still allow me
>> the benefits on master source consolidation.
>>
>> Jim I do understand and agree that consoliding
>> master sources doesn't make
>> it any easier to find the single piece of paper.
>> For me, though, I like to
>> be able to click on a source and see how many people
>> use it. I can click a
>> cemetery and see all the people buried there instead
>> of having each person's
>> stone as its own source. This would make my master
>> source list unwieldy.
>>
>> For census sources, I start with the word "census"
>> in the Source List Name
>> so that all census sources are clumped together in
>> the database (as are all
>> cemetery sources, newspapers, vital records, etc).
>> Then I consolidate the
>> census master sources by county within the census
>> year. For example:
>> Census: Georgia, Decatur - 1860 U.S. census
>> Census: Georgia, Early - 1860 U.S. census
>> Census: North Carolina, Wilkes - 1860 U.S. census
>> Census: North Carolina, Wilkes - 1870 U.S. census
>>
>> Therefore, the source name sort is first a
>> geographic one within the source
>> type. Then, it sorts by year. I can quickly click
>> on a source to see all
>> the people living in that county and state for that
>> year. I never have any
>> problem locating a source this way.
>>
>> I have all my sources and all my repositories posted
>> on my web site if
>> anyone would like to see more examples:
>> www.roots2buds.com.
>>
>> Source formatting really all depends on how you need
>> to use your source
>> information and how big your database is.
>>
>> My thoughts...
>> Gail Rich Nestor
>> Smyrna, Georgia, USA
>> www.roots2buds.net
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Winfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:16 AM
>> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Renaming sources
>>
>>
>> John,
>>
>> I think this is an idea that hits us all when we get
>> to the point
>> where we have a large number of sources. While
>> creating Master
>> Sources and including differing data as details to
>> that source, looks
>> like a good way to go, I personally think it makes
>> your work harder
>> rather than simpler. A source is nothing more than
>> a record that
>> supports a fact you have discovered for a person.
>> Typically the
>> source boils down to a sheet or two of paper in your
>> files with a
>> reference in your database. Regardless of what you
>> do with
>> consolidation in the database, all the sheets of
>> paper remain. The
>> way you have it now makes it simple to get to the
>> paper. Once
>> consolidated, it will be more difficult to drill
>> down to the sheet of
>> paper you are looking for. I tried consolidation at
>> one point and
>> quickly decided against it.
>>
>> On 5/25/06, john murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > hello Ron Ferguson and list
>> > Thank you for letting me know that I am now on the
>> list as I have not been
>> > able to make contact for several months
>> >
>> > I would like a little help please.
>> > I have many sources such as
>> > 1861 census 10 Every street, Manchester,
>> Lancashire, Smith Family
>> > 1861 Census 22 Brown street, Manchester,
>> Lancashire, Jones Family
>> > Etc
>> > I have all the census set this way
>> >
>> > As a result I now have hundreds of Sources
>> >
>> > I would like to change them to such names as
>> >
>> > Lancashire,Manchester- 1861 - UK Census (and
>> leave out the family names
>> > and
>> > the street)
>> > In this way I could shorten my Master Sources List
>> quite dramatically
>> > I would want to do this for all my Counties and
>> just have the major towns
>> > shown as above
>> >
>> > Is there an easy way to change them
>> > OR do I have to retype every entry of the Master
>> Source
>> >
>> > Hope this is clear enough of what I wish to do
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > John
>> > Manchester
>> > England
>> >
>> >
>>
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