Those of you critical of my approach are right -- it will be a lot of work to bring the source information into the proper format. I will say that even if I had all sourcing in (as I do for events like census), I still would use my note system as I want to track where differences are -- and see them at a glance -- which is the whole point of Research Notes.
If I were doing this the ideal way, I'd track the data in notes AND record the sources against the data field. I didn't do this last step because I wasn't sure the best way to record multiple sources (the point of the OP's question) -- show every source, or decide which was the most viable? In my example, I have nine sources for my grandfather's name -- most of them identical to each other. I probably don't need to record 9 sources for one fact -- so which do I choose? The obituary, cemetery transcription, and census are all about equal levels of surety, but the only source of his middle name comes from the personal knowledge of my father, which is, by definition, less reliable than "official" sources. Even when I answer this question and decide which sources to link, I think that I would still wish to keep the Research Notes as they not only provide the at a glance reference I mentioned before, but also serve as a research log. I know I don't need to search out his obituary, or look for him in the SSDI -- I've already done that and capture what those sources said. Scott On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Kirsten Bowman <vik...@rvi.net> wrote: > Scott: > > To each his own, but I sincerely hope that Legacy users don’t jump on > this > particular bandwagon. > > Years ago I was an FTM user and the sourcing capability was so weak that I > too put everything in Notes. On switching to Legacy I found that > converting > those notes to proper sources was a major project. When the tools are > there > to allow doing it right, it's *so* much better to use them. > > Kirsten > > From: Scott Hall > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:09 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Do you limit your # of sources for one fact? > > I'm similar to Michele in that I keep all "official" sources, but I track > my > sources in a different way -- via the Research Notes page. I do this > because at the moment I am not intending on publishing such that I need > official sources as end notes right now. At some point, I will have to > consider how to move my source information. > > I *do* keep all sources in the master list, I just don't link to the data > fields (some exceptions, such as events, apply). > > Instead I have a code system for all of my data within the Research Notes, > such that I can see everywhere the data came from and what it said. For > example, here are the research notes for my grandfather: > > ******* > Name > CEM-MoCC: Donald H. HALL > CEN-US1920: Donald H. HALL > CEN-US1930: Donald H. HALL > OBIT-RDC: Donald H. HALL > OBIT-RDC: Donald H. HALL (1) > OBIT-RDC: Donald HALL (2) (3) > PK-EGH: Donald Higgins HALL > RCA-HMR: Donald HALL > SSDI-RW: Donald HALL > > Birth > CEM-MoCC: 1913 > CEN-US1920: 6y [bet 2 Jan 1913 - 1 Jan 1914]; New York > CEN-US1930: 17y [bet 2 Apr 1912 - 1 Apr 1913]; New York > SSDI-RW: 6 Mar 1913 > PK-EGH: White City, NY > > Death > CEM-MoCC: 1976 > OBIT-RDC: 15 Jun 1976 > PK-EGH: Rochester, NY > SSDI-RW: Jun 1976 > > Burial > CEM-MoCC: West Webster Cem., Webster, NY > OBIT-RDC: cal 18 Jun 1976; West Webster Cem., Webster, NY > > SSN > SSDI-RW: 715-01-9675 > > Notes > (1) Per father Fred's obituary [RIN 7]. > (2) Per mother Nina's obituary [RIN 8]. > (3) Per brother Gerald's obituary [RIN 38]. > > ******* > You can see, for example, that his name is sourced from various places -- > Cemetery records (CEM-MoCC), Census records (CEN-USxxxx), Obituaries > (OBIT-xxx), Marriage records (RCA-HMR), the SSDI (SSDI-xx), and the > personal > knowledge of my father (PK-EGH). > > > > Scott > > > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, julia m <aga...@hotmail.com> 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? 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