On 2010/10/17 12:10, Jenny M Benson wrote:

> It's really very straightforward - honest!

?!?!?!?!?!?!? It can be very confusing at first, for sure :-)

> "Source" is easy 0 it's the "source of" information or "where it came
> from".  A Master Source is a generalised description of a type of Source
> and can be applied to many instances.  Source Detail is the nitty gritty
> which is specific to only one or only a few people.  For example, many
> people have a GRO Birth Certificate but one particular Certificate will
> only concern one person and perhaps their immediate relatives.

Surely, "where it came from" is a Repository. The same source can be be
found in one or more repositories. The UK Census images can be found
on-line both at Ancestry and at Find My Past. An important distinction
when using transcripts.

--
Regards,
Mike Fry
Johannesburg



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