I record an obit under Death Notes for the individual, and use it as a source for the other people mentioned in it. And the source would most often be written as Newspaper: [Name, Location] and the text of the obit copied under Source Detail. ----- JL Beeken JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists http://www.jgen.ws/jlog/
On 11/16/2012 1:45 PM, Lee Bruch wrote: > And to further explain: For my use, a source is the where I heard about, or > others can find out about, either the event or record. > Thus, a death is an EVENT, an obituary is a RECORD, and the newspaper that > ran the obituary, or where that obituary can be currently found, is a SOURCE > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lee Bruch [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event > > Everyone has their own needs and preferences. (It must be hard for genealogy > programmers to fulfill all those needs!!!). > > But I try to simplify things in my own mind. So for me, an event is simply > what happened (born, lived at, moved to, died, etc.) and a record is a record > of those events. So for me, an obituary would be a record. 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
