Dennis,
If you cite it for every piece of information (as you should and you'll
be glad you did later when you find other sources for it), if you don't
change it every time (by making the source detail specific to the actual
fact) then in a Descendant Book it will be referenced many times and
only listed once UNLESS you are using footnotes and/or combining
citations in one paragraph.
For this reason I usually find my citations list shorter (by pages) when
I don't combine into one paragraph.
For it to be listed once the whole source has to be identical down to
the last space or period.
Cathy
Dennis Birke <mailto:dpbi...@gmail.com>
Thursday, 27 July 2017 5:27 AM
Thanks to everyone who responded. I’ll try some of the suggested
options tonight.
*From:* LegacyUserGroup
[mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Leon
Chapman
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:03 AM
*To:* Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Citing a Source
You MUST cite each piece of data for every person.
You can do the sourcing in a few different ways.
1. Source each person and their data as you enter them using 1 master
source & clipboard - this is what I would do. This is pretty easy -
create the master source and copy it to the clipboard. Enter each
person’s data and 1 click on triple bar on left side of data entry
screen assigns the clipboard source to all the fields for that person.
So, basically, it is 1 more click on data entry to assign the source
to that persons data.
2. Create a blank Legacy database and enter all the new people and
then create 1 master source
A. Then, source everyone and all their data using advanced sourcing.
B. Import these people into your main database (Note: you will
need one common person in both databases to aid with the
import/merging of people.
3. You can enter all the new people without any sourcing
A. Create 1 master source for these people
B. Tag all Descendants from the oldest person (sister) that gave
you the information (Tag all of the new people with Tag 1)
C. Use Advanced Sourcing (From Tools) and assign the new source to
everyone with a Tag 1 and all their data fields.
Any of these options work, but Options 2 and 3 require a little more
knowledge of importing / merging / Tagging / Sourcing. If you have
less that about 15-20 people, I would use option 1. When you more
than 20 people, then option 2 or 3 will be much easier to accomplish
the sourcing of everyone’s information.
Good luck.
Leon Chapman
chap...@gmail.com <mailto:chap...@gmail.com>
Leon Chapman <mailto:chap...@gmail.com>
Thursday, 27 July 2017 12:02 AM
You MUST cite each piece of data for every person.
You can do the sourcing in a few different ways.
1. Source each person and their data as you enter them using 1 master
source & clipboard - this is what I would do. This is pretty easy -
create the master source and copy it to the clipboard. Enter each
person’s data and 1 click on triple bar on left side of data entry
screen assigns the clipboard source to all the fields for that person.
So, basically, it is 1 more click on data entry to assign the source
to that persons data.
2. Create a blank Legacy database and enter all the new people and
then create 1 master source
A. Then, source everyone and all their data using advanced sourcing.
B. Import these people into your main database (Note: you will
need one common person in both databases to aid with the
import/merging of people.
3. You can enter all the new people without any sourcing
A. Create 1 master source for these people
B. Tag all Descendants from the oldest person (sister) that gave
you the information (Tag all of the new people with Tag 1)
C. Use Advanced Sourcing (From Tools) and assign the new source to
everyone with a Tag 1 and all their data fields.
Any of these options work, but Options 2 and 3 require a little more
knowledge of importing / merging / Tagging / Sourcing. If you have
less that about 15-20 people, I would use option 1. When you more
than 20 people, then option 2 or 3 will be much easier to accomplish
the sourcing of everyone’s information.
Good luck.
Leon Chapman
chap...@gmail.com <mailto:chap...@gmail.com>
Dennis Birke <mailto:dpbi...@gmail.com>
Wednesday, 26 July 2017 10:36 PM
I’ve been using Legacy for several years, but I’m only beginning to
cite sources. So, I’m still trying to figure out the best way to
handle citations. Here is the situation I’m currently grappling with:
Until recently, my family database did not include information about
the descendants of one of my great-grandfather’s sisters. I recently
connected with the daughter of the sister and she has provided me with
fairly complete information about all of the sister’s descendants –
about 40 people when you include spouses. (You can imagine my delight
in getting this treasure trove of information in one fell swoop!)
Since this information was fairly hard to come by, I’d like to cite
the source (i.e., personal correspondence from the daughter). But, it
feels like “overkill” to generate a citation to this source for each
of four or five fields of data for each of about 40 people. That’s a
lot of repetitive work (even when using the clipboard) and that will
generate a lot of duplicate footnotes in a descendants report (which
is the type of report I most frequently generate). So, I have been
considering preparing one citation (probably connected with the
sister) saying something like: “Unless otherwise noted, all cited
information regarding [Sister X} and her descendants was obtained from
[Name of daughter] by letter dated ____.”
The problem I see with this approach is that for certain kinds of
reports, the single citation tied to the sister may not be included in
the report and there will be nothing cited for a the many descendants.
How would those of you familiar with citation practices handle this
situation?
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
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