On 27 Jan 2016 at 9:22, William Boswell wrote: > Maybe I should try the SourceWriter template since after going through my > sources to clean them up I've noticed my earlier use of personal knowledge > only shows the source with nothing in the details. There's something to be > said for doing the sources right the first time and not years later. > Fortunately those are the only sources I have that are incomplete.
While I find SourceWriter useful for some things, I find it less useful for others. For example, I don't use it for personal correspondence, because it makes each letter or e-mail a separate master source, with too much detail entered, and not enough printed in footnotes in reports etc.. I prefer to make the correspondent the master source, and the "detail" the date of the letter or e-mail, and use the category of letters for them all. Of course correspondence like that is usually someone else's personal knowledge, not mine, but I have still got much useful information in that way. Sometimes a correspondent will give a digest of their own research in a library or archive that I cannot get to, and if that concerns a particular person I will copy the relevant bits to the Research Notes field for that person, and put a reference in brackets after it, such as "E-mail from John Doe <[email protected]>, 20 Jan 2016", since the "Sources" field for research notes only allows a general source for the whole field. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: [email protected] 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
