I don't know if I'm a splitter or lumper, maybe I'm a hybrid. I'm not at the extreme where I only have a single Master Source for Census, but I do get reuse out of the Master Sources I do have. I'd say my master sources answer What, Where and When. For example - US Census, Cleavland County, Oklahoma, 1930. I can use that one Master Source for every family in that area. What do you think, is that course enough to be a lumper, or so granular it's a got to be a splitter?
With regards to many citations for each data item: I guess I do it like Geoff does. When managed as end notes I think it works well. When done as footnotes, I think it requires way too much page real estate to citations. To make it work the way I want it to, I am also careful to copy/paste identical Source Details so that they will collapse into just a single citation on the reports. For example, if a census contained multiple families on it, I may say something like 'entry for Doe, Jones and Smith families" instead of separate notations of 'entry for John Doe family', 'entry for Tom Jones family' or 'entry for Susie Smith family' in order to get that collapse into single citations. There is at least one down side to this method. When I upload to Ancestry.com, they will only attach the source to the first data item it finds it attached to in my GEDCOM. As a result, I end up with well sourced names, but not much else. It is now possible to edit the source on ancestry and simply place a check on the other facts it should be associated with, but I spend my time making my Legacy database as clean as I want and do not wish to redo it again when sharing my data other places. I'm thinking some experimentation is in order. Perhaps if I reorder the citation list, move my best primary source to the top of the list for each data item I'd get better results when sharing the data. Or maybe sources can be tagged at the individual level, providing a way to tag preferred sources per data item or something. On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > One of the things I saw on Geoff's recent webinar which gave me food for > thought was that he often had maybe 8 or 10 Citations for each data item > ... > Now I am wondering if have too few Citations! > -- > Jenny M Benson 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
