Tony: Splitting hairs here, but part of the answer depends on what you have. If it's an actual Marriage License and Certificate then that's an artifact and should be treated differently from a database, marriage register, or online images. For the latter, you're into the old lumper/splitter discussion. (See the LUG Archives for dozens of pro/con arguments on that topic.) If you're getting many marriage records from an online source, and if they're US or Canadian records, I'd tend to treat them about as you do census records--splitting either at the state/province or county level depending on how many you have and how much repetitive typing you want to do.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Tony Rolfe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Best way to source a certificate If you have a marriage (or birth or death) certificate and want to use it as a source for various data, should you create one source for each certificate? Or is it better to have a single source "Marriage Certificate" and put each certificate's data as detail for the main source? Individual sources means a lot of source entries, but a single source means you can't list everyone who refereces a particular certificate. Advice would be appreciated Thanks Tony 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
