Ed Allard wrote: > I guess we all have our own particular ways of entering > sources depending on our needs. I'm a lumper who uses the > basic source system rather than SourceWriter, so I'm unsure > if that makes a difference, but I have one source called > 1870 U.S. Census and countless records using that source. > They will contain source details such as State A, County B, > Township C or town/village (if I know it), film #, page #, > household #, etc. I do the same with 1871 etc. British or > Cdn censuses - tie to the major source rather than trying to > manually track them as sub- or sub-sub-sources. My source > list is long enough as it is. That's what I thought source > details were for. > > If I want to search for records for Census X, State A or > County B, etc., I will do a Detailed Search for > Source-Master Source = X and Source-Citation contains A or > B. That usually gives me a list of the records I'm looking > for. So, I am comfortable without highlighted source names > in Legacy. Then again, our logic patterns will all be quite > different.
The families I research tend to spread into widely separated places (i.e., Va Progenitor has 4 sons: two stay in Va, one to Western KY, and one to VMD; each of those sons have sons who further disperse into TX, MT, Calif, and Neb.) Having the state name and county in the source-name makes choosing where a new fact belongs easier, IMO. And no I never expect anyone else to follow my logic. Cheryl 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
