Martyn: As you say, there is no one *right* way to arrange your sources and some of us have gone through a couple of different schemes. It sounds like you've nearly settled on sorting master sources by record type, and that's certainly a workable method. Before you go far into that arrangement you might also think about sorting by location. This is the method Geoff appears to use and I've been converting many of my own master sources to a location-based format. It seems to work well for birth, marriage, death, and burial records although your parish records would then be split among several different locations. I rather like having records for a given location all listed together although they are further split by county and record types such as Ontario, Wentworth, Marriage Records (which would be Wentworth County in Ontario, Canada). You could add in the parish as well.
This is not at all a recommendation--just a thought about a different way of organizing sources. Kirsten From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 3:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] New user -sources. I have been researching my family history for the past 15 years or so and until a few months ago I was using “Generation Family Tree “ on which to record all my data. Because the latter program is out of date , no longer in production and has some other problems, a couple of months ago I decided to switch to Legacy Family Tree version 7.5. I imported a gedcom from my generations program into Legacy and the data came across perfectly except for the ‘sources’ which are a complete mess!! I realize that the topic of sources has been discussed at length many times on this forum and I have read much of this material and after struggling with the concept of master sources etc for a while and watching the training videos, I think I more or less understand the system now (perhaps I stand to be corrected!!) . I have now spent several hundred hours converting my sources into Legacy’s format however I have not finished that task by any means. I have been able so far to generate what I think are appropriate master sources and detail for Census, GRO records, BMD certificates, obituaries etc . I am stuck however on determining the best way to arrange sources for parish records, BTs etc because most if not all of the examples I have been able to find have related to USA sources . Since most of my material is of British origin I am wondering if someone can offer advice about a good system to use to record sources for parish records. I realize that there is no right or wrong way of doing this but need some advice from a long time user. The possible suggestions: for Master sources that I can come up with are as follows Parish Records – Bapt Marr or Burials - Surname – Church eg Parish records – Baptisms - HUMPHREY – Mansfield St. Peter Parish records – Baptisms – DUTTON - Mansfield St. Peter Parish records - Baptisms - HUMPHREY – Pleasley St. Michael Parish records – Burials - FOULKS - Chapelry of Smalley OR ALTERNATIVELY: Parish Records - Church - Bapt, Marr, or Burials – Surname Alternatively there may be a nuch better way of doing this. Can someone who has large numbers of such British sources please advise on the system they use. Martyn PEART Queensland, Australia 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
