The "source list name" is where I would put information like that instead of
the title. For correspondence I would put Dunhaupt-letters-5: letter from
Donald Dunhaupt 2008. Then the title would read: Letter from Donald
Dunhaupt to Susan Dunhaupt 15 May 2008.
Dunhaupt-letters-5 is how I file my papers followed by a brief description of
the item. When you look at the source list everything is in order by the
source name.
Mary Beth Figgins
--- On Mon, 6/2/08, Kirsten Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Kirsten Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Source titleing question
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 9:38 PM
Elizabeth:
There are no Source Police, so you can organize your list in any way that
works for you although, if I understand what you're asking, I certainly
wouldn't use an ancestor's name at the beginning of the source name in
order
to get all of his/her records to sort together. This would result in a huge
Master Source List and would be considered improper form by just about any
standard.
Also, I think you have something of a mixture here. E-mails and personal
letters would be more of a "source type" (which could be called
Correspondence) and I would combine them under titles like Research of John
Jones, Research of Mary Smith, etc. (The "Research of" keeps them
all
together in my source list but to save typing you could use something like
Re John Jones for the short name.) The date of the letter or e-mail would
go in the "Source Detail" field of the Source Clipboard and the full
text or
an abstract of the letter or e-mail goes in the Actual Source Detail field,
again, on the Clipboard.
With the Mills sourcing templates in Legacy 7 this may all change and I
wouldn't begin making massive changes to sources at this point when it
appears we may only be a few days or weeks away from a full software
release.
Kirsten
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Elizabeth Cunningham
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 7:15 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Source titleing question
My sources are currently organized:
Birth certificates -- a
Birth certificates -- b
E-mails -a
E-mails b
Personal letter - a dated y/yy/yy
Personal letter - b dated x/xx/xx
Censuses by state, county and year
And so on. Would it make sense to put some of the sources under a
person's name first, so all the e-mails, letters, certificates etc for
one person come up together?
Elizabeth C
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