This is just me, but in my case, lumping developed some sources I meant to get rid of. After a few months, I ended up taking a day and going through my sources to get rid of the ones I no longer wanted.
Would splitting have prevented those unwanted sources? I would like to think so; I am not sure. I have been a BIG lumper for years. Robert On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:51 PM, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not talking sources here. I've not been consistent, and am working on > doing some cleanup of my data. For example, it's important to me to > keep track at an event level of an individuals appearance on the > census register. I use a census event, but a residence event would > serve my purposes just as well. As long as I have an event every 10 > years I can see in my time lines and such, I'm good. The census can > give more information though, such as birth or alt. birth, name or alt > name, occupation, veteran status, etc. Some times I've added separate > facts and sourced with the census record, other times I just add notes > to the census event. This is true of various sources, I'm just using > census as an example here. > > I'm leaning toward lumping what I'll call these secondary facts in the > notes going forward with my cleanup. Before doing so, I was wondering > if I'd cut myself off from some useful ways to slice, dice, chop, > mesh, share, search or otherwise much with my data. Maybe I'm not > seeing a downside here that I should be. > > TIA 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
