Gail: Your emails on sourcing has been most interesting and informative, but I have one question concerning Personal Correspondence. You say that in the Master Source you put Personal Correspondence in the Source Name List and the title. Nothing else. All the other information you enter in Source Detail for various contacts you make with various persons. Then you have one Master Source and an abundance of contacts in Source Details so there aren't too many Master Sources. But you put each contacts address in the Repository. How do you do that if you put nothing in the Master Source, but the words Personal Correspondence? Their is no Repository in Source Detail unless they have added it to Legacy 6. I am using Legacy 5 which could be my reason for not understanding.I think you have excellent ideas, but I do not unerstand how this can work. Please clarify this issue for me. I will much appreciate more information so I can have abetter understanding of your method. Thank you. Winifred
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Rich Nestor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help with sourcing > 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. > > > > 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/ > > For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
