Marie,
Can you give us more details of your sourcing approach? It sounds like you are a splitter – one document = one source. Is that correct? Donald Quigley Escondido, CA Quigley Doyle Family Tree <http://www.donquigley.net/> From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 11:09 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Master Source List Having started using Legacy loooong before they had a source maker, I created my own templates. All the sources are entered under the name of the person. If I'm using, say the 1860 census as a source, I just pull up the template for the organization that digitized it for online retrieval, add my specifics, and save it as a new source. Marie Marie Varrelman Melchiori, Certified Genealogist Emeritus ______________________________________________________________ CG or Certified Genealogist is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by Board-certified genealogists after periodic competency evaluation, and the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. In a message dated 2/25/2016 6:57:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> writes: Also a lumper for most things with Source List Names organised by type. Certainly not a Master Source for every household in a census. Does TNG really force that if you want to include the image? If it does, I'd be attaching the image to the event rather than the source. No problem finding the Master Source quickly. I rarely need to edit source detail. When I do, I know what people are involved so can find the Source Detail on their Assigned Sources pages. However, it's usually the Source Detail Text I need to amend as I've worked out another bit of the transcription - and I use Search and Replace to do that. Then there is Show List for the Master Source to give you a list of people using the source. Cathy Jean Suplick wrote: As a lumper, I do something similar to Arnold. I name them based on t ype, location, and title. Works for me. Births-IA-Births and christenings, 1830-1950 (FamilySearch) Births-MD-Dept. of Health birth certificates Newspapers-IL-Illinois State Journal (GenealogyBank) US Federal Census-1850-OH-Carroll Co. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Don Quigley <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]%20%0b%3cmailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Curiosity question: How do other Legacy users quickly find a Master Source for editing or selecting for a citation?____ __ __ I have always prefixed my Source List Names with the File ID – ex. “2423 – 1920 US Census, Parks Bar Twp., Yuba Co., CA – Three Scott Families” – which is also part of the attached media name – ex. 2423_IMG.jpg (obviously I’m a splitter, not a lumper). That makes fi nding the source easy, but a list of all source names, sorted alpha-numerically, looks “helter-skelter.” When sorted by the text after the File ID, the source names are better organized and visually useful in finding typos and inconsistencies in data entry. But then it seems much harder to find particular sources for editing or citation selection.____ __ __ I’ve suggested to the Legacy folks that a “search by File ID” ability would be very useful (and it would solve my problem). But until that happens I’m looking for ideas from other users.____ __ __ One caveat – I can’t use source details for “primary” source information and attached media (ie, no lumping) as my TNG website won’t “see” media attached to source details in a GEDCOM, just the Detail Information and Text/Comments.____ __ __ Donald Quigley____ Escondido, CA____ Quigley Doyle Family Tree <http://www.donquigley.net/>____ _______________________________________________ LegacyUserGroup mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com
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