On 24/11/2013 13:59, Pamela Wile wrote: > I’m a relatively new Legacy user and I’m still feeling my way around > creating sources. I’d like some help with the following. > > I’ve found a death record in the FamilySearch database and would like to > add it as a source for the death of a person who already exists in > Legacy. Can someone walk me through the steps? > > Here is a link to the record https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F2PC-28M >
You have said in another post that you want to use Source Templates, but I am replying again to this post so that others relate my response to your question and example. When you find a record in FamilySearch you are actually seeing an Index Record which may come from any one of numerous databases, so I like to create a separate Master Source for each database. I use the template for Online Database. (When you've selected to Add a new Master Source using SourceWriter, select "add a generic source here" and then select "Online database" as the medium. As with all SourceWriter Templates, you do not have to fill in *every* field and you don't necessarily have to enter data which doesn't exactly tally with the field name - the field name won't appear in your citation. In this case, I don't fill in the first 3 fields concerning "Author." I enter Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or you can just put LDS if you prefer) as the Agency/Creator. If you look at the foot of the example you give, you will see that the database in this case is "Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955" so that goes in the next field (Database Title). The format is Online Index. Personally, I don't put anything in Website Creator, but I put FamilySearch as the Website Title and familysearch.org as the URL. (You can put the precise URL of the record you are citing here if you wish, but it makes it quicker and easier to copy and edit this Master Source for other similar Sources if you don't!) I don't usually bother to use the Date field - I probably should. The Source List Name you give this Master Source is entirely your choice, make it something meaningful which will be easy for you to locate whenever you want to use it. Having created the Master Source you can attach it to any one who has an event which appears in that Index. In this case, you may want to use the record you refer to as a Source for Cotnam's name, his date and place of death and the names of his parents. When you attach it to the first field the Source Detail screen will appear and this is where to enter the details which are specific to Cotnam's record. For Item of Interest enter something like "Cotnam Blackburne's 1875 death" and for Credit Line something like "citing GS film #129881". What I like to do at this point is use the FS Catalog to look up the film number and get the title of the film and I add that in brackets after the film # in the Citation, though some people would frown on this because the title isn't actually included in the record . I also like to copy and paste the text of the record into the Text field on the Text/Comments tab of the Source Citation. There might well now follow posts from other LUGgers who do things differently! -- 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
