Paula: In regular use I always access the Master List via the link on the Source Clipboard.
I like having sources grouped because there are situations where I can’t remember exactly how I named a particular book and want to scan just the book section. Other times I don’t recall whether I’ve been putting, say, tax list transcriptions under state and county or “tax,” or perhaps USGenWeb. The way I have sources grouped now does work pretty well, but having census sources sorted by year, grouping bmd and some other records by location, and coding book sources with “xb” would leave a fairly short “miscellaneous” group for the times when I do need to search through it for whatever reason. Kirsten From: Paula Ryburn Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geoff: Source List Arrangement? Kirsten, Do you access your master source list both ways? That is, scrolling through the list (where it would be a bother to find Find-a-grave among the states), as well as typing something in at the top (like your census year)? Because if you only do the latter, then it wouldn't really matter where the "other" items fall, would it? Or are you wanting the "other" items to be grouped together so that THEY are easier to find? Just trying to picture this, before I embark on another reorganization task myself. ;) THX. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kirsten Bowman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, October 31, 2011 1:30:55 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geoff: Source List Arrangement? Russ: Yes, that would work for some, but I have a ton of book sources like Savage’s _Genealogical Dictionary_ and _The Great Migration Begins_ that pertain to many lines as well as other miscellaneous source items. I’m wondering if Geoff uses some device or prefix to keep non-location specific names (like his new Find A Grave source) from mixing alphabetically with others that are sorted by state and county. Currently my 600+ sources are grouped by entering “book,” “cemetery,” “birth,” “marriage,” etc. as the first word in the Source List Name. This is OK, but it causes records from a single geographical location to sort into those several categories rather than being grouped by location and I’m wondering if Geoff’s system would work better—except I’m not sure about how he handles some of these details. Kirsten <snip> 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 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
