James, I am, and always have been, a lumper. I had to make some concessions when Legacy introduced the Source Writer (if I wanted to use it), but nothing too drastic, and there is no way that I will ever be a splitter. BUT this suits me, and I am not suggesting for one minute that others should change their practice.
Taking for example a census, my Master Source is for the year of the census and (since Legacy switched the Repository from the Detail to Master Source) and for the same year one for each of the Repositories i.e. I may have two Master Sources for the 1851 census one for Ancestry.co.uk and another for Findmypast.com. I source all my Events, such that a new name found on a census will have that census as the source for the Name, and the same for every other piece of information which I record from that census, such as Residence, Occupation etc.. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: James Cook Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 9:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] What are the pros and cons of splitting or lumping facts? 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
