I think Mills' new book is as close as we're going to come to a certain
standard for genealogical source citation. I'm sure many of us, myself
included, will be out to buy it as soon as word is out.
In the mean time, if Legacy would just build in more flexibility with the
order of source citation components (as I've outlined in several previous
e-mials), we could mirror pretty much anything Ms. Mills currently has in
*Evidence* or her *QuickSheet* or I'm sure in her new book.
Whether a person decides to centralize Master Sources or decentralize them,
you could still get the citation output to work if we had the component
ordering flexibility.
Can you tell I feel strongly about this??!
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Georgia
www.roots2buds.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Cirillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help with sourcing
Hi All,
I agree with those who say that sourcing can be
individualized so long as the information is provided
however, some may want to publish in future and the
format of citation is much more precise, uniform and
formal, and to be honest, I have yet to find a way to
state my sources on Legacy that would not require alot
of editing should I want to publish.
Nick Cirillo
--- ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Steve,
It seems to me that which way to source is an on
going question and is very
much a matter of personal chaoice and where the main
output from the
research is to be used. If, for example, I was to
have an individual master
source for all people who corresponded with me via
letters emails etc. then
I would have a large number of master sources. As my
main output will be a
website this I do not want.
Instead I have a master sources called letters,
emails etc. and in the
detail go the names etc of the correspondants, the
repository is, of course,
always me. This saves a lot of web space. As a
previous correspondent has
said, the main aim is to enable a reader to find the
source - whatever
system is used if it does that it is doing its job.
Ron Ferguson
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>From: "Steve Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help with sourcing
>Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:31:11 +0200
>
>On 5 Jun 2006 at 19:44, winmcl wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>I use a different method:
>
>I put the correspondent's name in the master source
record, and the date of
>the letter in the detailed record, in
year-month-day order, so that if
>there
>are several lettters they show up in date order.
>
>--
>Steve Hayes
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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