Doris: The way you *format* your individual source citations will accomplish the main part of your objective. The Legacy Source Writer templates and _EE_ will help a good deal in making sure you include the necessary elements and will put those elements in a consistent sequence.
The way you *group* your sources in the Master Source List is a separate matter. That's more an issue of assigning consistent Source List Names to organize your list so that like things sort together to make it easier for you to find them quickly as the list grows. Because the list sorts by the informal Source List Name assigned to each, you could conceivably end up with several Master Sources for the same type of citation such as: 1910 US Census, New York, Kings County US Census, 1910, New York New York Census, 1910, Kings County If you used the 1910 Source Writer template to create different citations for each of these, the citations themselves would all look the same because the software dictates the sequence of the elements and how they appear. You would, however, have three different Master Sources and they would sort very far apart in your list. That's why it's helpful to decide early on the Source List Names given to your Master Sources. I begin all my census Master Sources with the year. That way they all sort in numerical order at the top of the list and I only have to type the 4-digit year to take me to the proper area of the list where I can quickly scroll down to see if I already have a Master Source for the appropriate country and state/province. I group book titles by putting "book" before the title in the Source List Name field. You might want to group your birth, marriage, and death records by geographical location and to do that you'd just name them "Iowa, Jackson Co. birth" and "Iowa, Jackson Co. death," etc. Or if you have only a small number of bmd records you might want to group them all as "vital records," in which case you could put a "v" at the beginning of each Source List Name when creating your Master Source. Some things are harder to decide: Do you want to group cemetery records by the name of the cemetery, or by the geographical area, or perhaps with death records? How about newspaper birth, marriage, or death announcements? Fortunately it's not too difficult to rename master sources later on if you change your mind about how they're grouped. I hope this gives you some ideas. Good luck with your organizing! Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on Behalf Of Doris Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:44 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Sources suggestions Kirsten, Thanks for the reply! I realize I asked a lot in one email. I want my file organized with the mentally of "do it best and do it right" so that when others view my research the see the organization and will see exactly where I found what without having to interpret "my" system and redo research that has been completed. I want to be consistent in what other serious genealogists are doing, so any suggestions on group sourcing would be welcomed. For instance, I know that I will need to create birth records for each state/country. Doris Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
