Hi Ron, > Do you recommend adding each individual email / letter as an > individual master source along with the date?
I have a (basic) Master Source named "Personal Correspondence" that I use for emails and anything else that comes my way via letter or email. In the detail, I put the person's name, the date of the correspondence (the date on the letter or email) and what form it is in - eg, "email from John SMITH 02 Jan 2009" or "letter from Jane DOE 05 Dec 2008". If it is an email, I save a copy of it on my hard drive (something I can do with Thunderbird), a letter gets scanned and added as well, so I've always got a copy in my family research files to refer to quickly. I use the Source Clipboard to assign the source to each item of data, so the entries are identical and will appear just once in a report. I'm a bit of a lumper, so the one Master Source suits me fine for a multitude of documents with the exact details recorded in the Source Detail. In his reply, Bill said: > I've tried to get people who have sent me too many emails with > a lot of information to put it all into a report, but they appear > clueless even though I explained that I want to use their > information as a source. Personally I hate using emails as > sources because they are weak and no proof if the information > is even correct. An email is no more or less accurate than a report from someone - it is all hearsay - and I'd rather just have what they know than try to wrangle a report in my preferred format from them. Whatever they tell you, in whatever format it comes to you, you will have to check the facts for yourself to verify their accuracy. Be grateful that they share with you at all. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
