James, Your question begs another "Does it matter if anybody else knows what the order means?". I use a lot of my own conventions for myself not for others. Usually so that I can more easily see what my train of thought was at the time. They mean something to me and help my research, and, for me, that is important.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: James Cook Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] webinar/changing colors once sourced Interesting. I'm curious though, besides yourself (because you are aware of your own procedures), how would anyone else know what meaning to inject into the order of your citation list? Does the ordering provide any more meaning than the date field? On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/05/2011 14:43, James Cook wrote: >> 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. > > In his webinar Geoff mentioned the possibility of arranging your > Citations so that the "best" one(s) was/were at the top. I wouldn't > want to do this myself because I like my Citations to show me (and > anyone else) my path of discovery. > > For example, my first "meeting" with Mrs Smith might be in the 1861 > Census, where I discover that Mr Smith had a wife named Joan. That > leads me to a Marriage Index which shows that Joan's surname was Brown > and they married in the June quarter of 1956. That in turn allows me to > acquire the Marriage Certificate which gives me the exact date of the > marriage and other information. > > -- > 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
