I'm a little stumped at the best way to use Legacy to cite city directories. I've looked through the archives and gleaned some information, but still need some advice. Like a lot of you, I rely heavily on Elizabeth Shown Mill's book to guide how my citations should look. Occassaionaly, I also use sites like the ProGenealogist for help. I think it important that sources be cited accurately and completely; not just so one can go back and find the document again, but to ensure consistency of formatting, proper attribution, and professional standards.
The challenge I seem to run into is that while the SourceWriter is an excellent tool, it still seems a little deficient when using sources that are digitized and made available online. The challenge I'm currently having is with city directories, which, as people are likely familar, are published across multiple years, sometimes with different titles and publishers. I'm currently working with the Rochester, NY city directories. Here is my dilemmas and question: I'm using multiple years/volumes (75 years so far) to track and record people's residences and occupations. I'd like to avoid having 75 master sources (one for each year). Instead, having a generic citation for the years in which the same publisher published the directory is my intent. For Rochester, the directory was published by C. C. Drew in 1869-71, who became Drew, Allis & Co. from 1872-43, and then The Drew Allis Company from 1844-1918. During these years, the directory's title remained the same. I can accomplish that by simply putting all of the years in the publish date, or by using a grouping such as 1869-1918. However, when I get to the detail source I seem to be stuck. I can figure out no way to show that person B appears in the 1871 directory (volume 22) on page 150, in the 1872 directory (volume 23) on page 156, in the 1873 directory (volume 24) on page 206, etc. in a single citation. I *could* have multiple detail citations pointing to the one master, but is this any better than having multiple masters? Thoughts? How have you handled this? What I want to avoid is having one master source, entering tons of information, and then realizing that to be accurate or proper each should have their own reference. I am not aware of an easy way to split master sources other than finding the detailed information and changing it one by one by one--a process I do not wish to do. Secondly, is there any way to edit the automatic formatting in the master source? For example, if I wanted to add bracketed information such as [various subtitles] after the title, but do not want it italicized, can I do that somehow? Lastly, unrleated to the above--is there any way to copy a master source such that specific details could be edited rather than retyped? I currently have 82 master sources for federal censuses (one for each county each year), which is necessary to have the proper citation. After typing "HertiageQuest Online" in for the 40th time, I was sure wishing I could simply copy the master source ... yes, copy and paste will work, but only for a single line. I used it to avoid typing "http://www.hertiagequestonline.com"; 82 times. Thanks, Scott Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
