Keeping in line with my current philosophy of having lots of different
source details under one master source (as in the example of having multiple
tombstone linked to a single cemetery), I set up "Personal Correspendence"
as the Master Source. This is both the Source List Name and the Title. I
leave the rest of the Master Source fields empty.
For detail, these are some examples from my database:
1) phone conversation between [Person A, city, state] and Gail Rich Nestor
on [date]
2) e-mail from [Person A, e-mail address] to Gail Rich Nestor on [date]
3) visit/interview between [Person A, city, state] and Gail Rich Nestor on
[date]
4) e-mail (or paper notes) from [Person A, e-mail address] to [Person B,
e-mail address], forwarded to Gail Rich Nestor on [date]
5) wedding invitation from [Person A, city, state] to Gail Rich Nestor for
wedding of [parties] on date
6) notes from 1968 Rich Family Reunion in Tallahassee, FL (written
correspondence with attendees; original papers in possession of Person A,
city, state).
In the repository fields, I list the person's name and whatever contact
information I have for them. Therefore, each person has his/her own
repository. If the person really wants to be anonymous, I use double
brackets so that the information does not go to the web site, but so I can
find it later myself.
By having my own name in the detail, I know (and others who may copy this
source may know) all parties to the correspondence.
By having the dates of e-mails, I can often look back in Outlook Express and
read the text of the e-mail again. It might even be nice to paste some or
all of that text into the comments friend of the citation detail if the
wording is especially important.
Just some more ideas for sourcing!
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Georgia, USA
www.roots2buds.net
----- Original Message -----
Bruce Jones wrote
I have a different issue. I am gathering data from living relatives about
their (living) families. I have made phone calls and sent emails to a
variety of people. How should I source these items?
Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded on Friday, June 02,
2006:
I use the person's name as the Master Source and then for the Source Detail
I put "Oral history" or "E-mail [date]" or "Letter [date]".
I have gleaned quite a bit of information from various notes
compiled/collected by an Uncle who did quite a bit of work on our family
history some years ago. Where I have been unable to verify this data from
another source or where I'm not sure what his original source was I have
cited it as his name and then "Research papers" as the Detail.
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