On 19/05/2011 03:12, julia l wrote: > Every time I add a source, I am always tripped up whether to put > details of the document in the source text field or the details text > field. Once the difference between the two and how do you use them?
It rather depends on the nature of the Source and the nature of the details! When you refer to "source" and "details" above I presume you are referring to Master Source and Source Detail. Unless you are an extreme splitter and each of your Master Sources relates to only one item of information, what you enter in Master Source Text will appear in the citation for every record which uses that Source. I usually use that field to quote the description of a website or a particular database. What you write in the Text field of the Source Details will appear in only the citations that use the Master Source with those particular Details - the name of the individual, the dates, the page of the book, the Census reference or whatever. Here I copy or transcribe the exact information I am citing, or sometimes just an extract of it. On a related note, in his recent webinar Geoff copied all the details from a Death Certificate into the Source Detail Text field and explained that he did this so that the full information would be available even if the attached scan was not, for example if he sent someone a gedcom. I thought this was a very good point, one which had not occurred to me before. (Just one of *many* things I learned from that webinar!) -- 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
