On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]>wrote:
> James Cook wrote > >I have a marriage document (both the license and certificate > >all-in-one). ... > > I haven't come across such a document before, so I can't speak from > actual experience, but I think I might source this as if it was two > separate documents - the Licence and the Certificate. There are > SourceWriter templates for both types of document. > Makes sense. Though I just used the source clipboard to use the same source for the marriage itself and the Marriage License event. I'll play with your idea and see how I like that. > I am presuming you mean template when you refer to "recipes" and if you > are very new to Sourcing you might find the SourceWriter templates > easier to use than Basic Format. > Not exactly. I was thinking a recipe more like this (using your suggestions): Marriage License Document Recipe 1. Scan document; name and store following personal conventions 2. Add appropriate source using SW template - likely a Basic Format for this recipe 3. Attach scanned document as picture to Source Details; mark to NOT print in endnotes 4. If Minister Included: Include in Marriage Notes 5. If witnesses other than persons in your tree: Include in Marriage Notes 6. Add these related events to the marriage??? 6. Copy source to clipboard and past to related events etc. etc. etc. >The sorts of things I'm wondering about include: > >- I've got the doc scanned as a jpg. Although a pic format, I assume I > >only attach as a file, but to what? > > >- License part is signed by county judge - where does this fact go? > >- Certificate includes the minister - where does this fact go? > >- Two witnesses are included (not my surnames afaik) - where do these > >go? > > If you use the SW templates you will be guided as to what to include and > where to include it. Unless I'm way off, the templates do not include fields for this information. That's why I asked where I should put it. > Information that they were married by Licence, about the officiating > minister and witnesses I include in the Marriage Notes. Marriage Notes > will print in Reports if you choose to have them do so. I would use > your combined document as a Source (or 2 Sources) for both the Marriage > Notes and the Marriage itself. > > To me, details such as "joined in marriage by rev." relate to the > Marriage itself, not to the document. I would use Source Comments only > to enter information specifically about the nature of the Source - for > example "photocopy of original held by X" or "dubious about the validity > of this Source as X'z memory is known to be unreliable." > > I use Source Text to quote actual text from the Source document - but > don't always use it. Suppose the Source document is a long Report from > another researcher: I will copy the pertinent few lines to Source Text > but attach the document as a file. If the Source document is a Census, > most of the information is included in the Event fields so I attach the > image as a picture and do not use Source Text. > > -- > Jenny M Benson That's what I was thinking - notes about source on source, notes about the event with the event. However, the marriage event seems to be treated as a special event and it isn't behaving as other events. On an ancestor report it shows up in good order. On the FGS it shows up at the botton, but notes on other events, such as the Marriage License event, show up with the event itself. I was hoping to get that with the marriage as well. Still this is helpful, thanks! jc 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
