-------------------------------------------------- From: "Maureen Lake" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:03 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [LegacyUG] Source Writer challenge
> Good afternoon, all, > > I have run up against a few challenges, but I will set them out in > separate > emails so I can keep the subjects straight. I just recently combined two > sources into one. The first was created in the basic style, the second > with > Source Writer. I am now going through and (finally) standardising all > 2300 > records to the Source Writer template, but I have it a snag, and it's > going to > continue. There aren't enough Location options. These records are > Canadian > church records, which means that I have an extra layer in there. Quebec > has > three St-Michels that I can think of, and without the county included, > specifying which one is going to be difficult. > > So I'm throwing this problem out for suggestions. My initial thought was > to do > something along the lines of St-Michel [Bellechasse] in the > city/town/village > line, but I'm not certain that's the way to go. Any alteratives? Once I > do > these I really don't want to have to re-do them. And France will follow > the > same pattern, or worse, with between four and six levels. > > Thanks. > > Maureen > > Maureen, As others have suggested, you don't need to just put in a box what the name of the box indicates. Where it has, say, a box for the name of a church, the name of the road it is on could also be included etc. Just decide for yourself what feels right for you and use that format. However, it is not a problem I have since I almost invariably leave all those boxes empty. In the location field for, say, a Christening Event, I would include the name of the church and the full address (if I have it), and I see no point in including the same information in the Source. I know that this goes completely against the so called 4 field convention, but that does work for GB anyhow, and, I believe, for much of Canada as well. As has been said setting the Location Field to read from right to left means that the locations are easy to look up when needed. Basically what I am saying is: do what fits, is accurate and makes sense for others to follow, and above all what is comfortable for yourself. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ 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
