I have stories and information that is being relayed
to me via word of mouth by varying people in the
family.
My disclaimer is that I am doing family HISTORY, not
genealogy in it's pure form.
Anyway, how do you all cite this in Legacy? Do I make
one master source titled something like Personal
I think this may be a lumper versus splitter topic ;-)
You could either lump all stories under a source of person
Conversation or split them out by person Conversation date/place.
If the source is a living person, you might want the date/place if you
need clarification or details of a specific
Jess M wrote
I have stories and information that is being relayed to me via word of
mouth by varying people in the family. My disclaimer is that I am doing
family HISTORY, not genealogy in it's pure form.
Anyway, how do you all cite this in Legacy? Do I make one master source
titled
Well, as a splitter I source each individual source of information.
For instance:
Informal conversations with Elizabeth (Bennett) Welker (Mountain
View, Missouri), from 1965 to the present (2007); regarding the Welker and
Bennett families of Some County, Somewhere.
For the filing title I
I am a lumper, so I started with just one source Personal
Communication for all emails and phone calls that provided me with
information. However as I go more and more of these (several hundred
from over 75 persons), I decided to create a Master Source for each
individual. In addition to not
I'm more of a lumper, but I make each individual person a source. Then
in the details, that might be an email, or telephone call, or personal
conversation, etc. I give the full description (i.e. Telephone call
with Susan Daily on 4 Jul 2007; two pages of handwritten notes) in
the source detail.
I agree with Susan but I make two changes.
1. I start each person with a special character = to group them
instead of using the word Person
2. I have started putting the date at the beginning of the Detail
Source line (Oct 5, 2007 email from John Doe to Bruce Jones)
My 2 cents worth
On 10/11/07,
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