julia m wrote: > > I was just wondering how other people handle this? For example: > You find someone's birthdate (or year) from a census, so you attach the > census as the source. Later you read a few more things (obit, gravestone, > etc) so you add those as sources to that piece of data. Then you finally > receive a birth certificate that has the birthdate and you add that as a > source. > Do you drop off some of these other sources and let, in this instance, the > birth certificate be the only source for that piece of data? How do I know > when enough is enough--or is it never enough and I should keep adding > sources as I find them?!?
The short answer, as far as I am concerned, is "it depends!" I do as you say, adding each new Source as I find it, sometimes ending up with 5 or 6 Sources for the same fact. I tend not to add several of the same type of Source - for example, if I get someone's name from the Baptism record of one of their children, I don't usually use the Baptism records of any other of their children to Source their name. Where I will delete an old one in favour of a new one is where I have a "better" version. For example, for a lot of records I had the record from FamilySearch.org as a Source for Birth/Daptisms ir Marriage. Later on, I was able to get an image of the relevant Church Record from Ancestry or FindMyPast so I add that and then delete the FamilySearch Source because that is only a transcription of the same record. One exception to the deleting as above is where I have entered an Index record for a B, M or D (readily available for British events) and subsequently get the Certificate. I don't delete the Index Source as this would be useful to anyone coming after me and wanting to apply for the same Certificate. -- 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
