Tony Rolfe wrote >At the moment, when I get BMD info from FreeBMD, I create an event >"Birth Registration", "Marriage Resistration" or "Death Registration" >with the volume and page numbers in the description, the quarter in the >date and the registration district in the location. I then have a >single "FreeBMD" source with no detail info, except the date that I >recorded the information. I was wondering whether this is the best >way, or whether there is a more accepted solution. > It is probably very logical and correct to create Registration Events, but I think most people *probably* just use information from FreeBMD as the data for the Vital Events Birth, Marriage and Death, exchanging it for more exact information when known. This is certainly what I do.
I might originally enter someone with Born "September Q 1884" in "Wirral Registration District and include all the information from FreeBMD in the Source. I then find them in a Census and get a more precise place of birth as "Oxton, Birkenhead, Cheshire" so I change the place of Birth to this and add an additional source. Later, I get the Birth Certificate and get the precise date of birth so I amend the entry to reflect this. Sometimes when I get a Certificate I delete the FreeBMD Source because the Index Information is included in the Certificate Source Citation, but it is actually useful to see the progression of first finding information on FreeBMD and later confirming it with a Certificate. I use the SourceWriter so the template I use for FreeBMD Birth entries is BirthRecords>Birth Certificate>England>Birth Certificate, Index>Online database. Similarly for Deaths and Marriages. >When I get information from the IGI, the process creates at least one >and often several individual sources, all named "International >genealogical Index (R)" It would seem more logical to me to have a >single IGI source, with all the information from these individual >sources going into detail fields. Would this be a more logical >approach and, if so, is there any way to achieve it? I presume you are having the IGI information automatically downloaded into Legacy. You illustrate one of the reasons why I never allow the machine to take over completely! I always prefer to manually enter information copied from online sources and then add the Source Citation in my own way. I have a single Master Source for IGI records which is Church Records>LDS Genealogical Compilations>International Genealogical Index>Online Database. -- Jenny M Benson 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
