I put Civil War data under the Military event. Here is how I record the sources for some of the Civil War data:
Federal Pension Record, U. S. National Archives & Records Administration. (Information received upon submission of Form 85A Full Pension File.), Certificate No. 65028, Date of Search - 12 January 2006, Searcher - JF. Historical Data Systems, comp. Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-. Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA. Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 - Historical Data Systems Inc.P.O. Box 196 Kingston, MA 02364. Federal Pensioners' Roll of 1883 (2003. Extracted from the U.S. Pension Bureau Records. Heritage Quest CD, Index prepared by James Jackson. The Pensioners' Roll was created by an 1882 act of Congress and was originally published in five volumes.), Vol. 1, Page 68. 1890 Veterans Schedules (Ancestry.com. 1890 Veterans Schedules [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: United States. Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War. M123, 118 rolls. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington D.C.), Year: 1890; Census Place: Fairfield, Somerset, Maine; Roll: 6; Page: 3; Enumeration District: 180. Shaw, Horace H., & Charles J. House, The First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1862-1865; A History of Its Part and Place in the War for the Union (Portland, ME, 1903. 516+41 pages.), Page 261. BTW: A great place to look for burial locations of Union Civil War veterans is http://www.suvcwdb.org. If anyone is interested in joining the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, send me a message off list. Ed ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Cirillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 7:56 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Need Advice Recording Civil War Information > I think this boils down to whether you are a > "splitter" or a "lumper". What Ron proposes will > certainly give fewer Master Sources but will mix > together several descrete sources. I would use > Military as the event(it does already exist on the > Event section) and each unique Source eg pension > records, service records, as Master Sources then > "detail" for each individual record. > I am certainly no expert and agonize how to Source > each time I do. > Nick Cirillo 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
