Doris: I waffled on this one too, but finally ended up making the newspaper the Master Source. My reasoning was that the same newspaper might contain birth and marriage notices as well as brief death or funeral notices and full obituaries. Although the names of the deceased are not included in the title of the Master Source, it's easy to see which records use that Master Source through the Show List option. In order to group the papers together in the Source List, I add "Newspaper" in front of the title in the Source List Name field. That won't print in reports, it's just for sorting your master list.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Doris Beck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Sourcing Treatment for Obituaries Hi all, I am trying to "clean" up and possibly reduce the number of master sources. Currently, when I am lucky enough to find an obituary (say from Genealogybank.com) I am saving it as a "Newspapers" source by itself called Obituary: Name of Deceased, Year of Death. This method, although easy to find by individual's name is creating way too many sources to scroll through. Not all obituaries are from the same state, same newspaper, etc. so I don't know the best way to group them as one master source, and then allowing me to use the detail screen to personalize it for each individual. Can anyone give me suggestions as to how you might be handling this? I appreciate the help. Thanks! Doris 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
