Andrew,
I agree with most of what Jenny has said.
Here's a tip when looking for a Source Template to use for a particular
purpose.
Start from the Source Clipboard. Choose a likely Template and before
completely entering all the Master Source data, save and select it. Then
on the Source Clipboard you see the corresponding detail screen on the
source clipboard. If that looks fine then you go ahead and add your
source detail, apply the source and remember to go back and edit the
Master Source to include all the Master Source data saving it using the
option to update all existing citations using it. If the source detail
doesn't give you the detail you require, you just go back to choose
another Master Source, this time remembering to delete the one you
started and didn't like.
RE the OPR I don't know which Source Template you decided to use.
It depends on whether you are making a Master Source for the whole OPR
or whether you are going to make a Master Source for each parish in the
OPR. For the later you use one of the Church Record templates.
I recently decided to use just one Master Source for all the OPR on
ScotlandsPeople so used the Internet - database and images template with
Database Title: Church Registers and then put the actual church and
reference in the Credit line ending up with citations like this:
ScotlandsPeople, "Church Registers," database and images,
(https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : accessed 26 May 2017); birth of
James Craig; 02/02/1804 CRAIG, JAMES (Old Parish Registers Births 576/
10 187 Ardrossan) Page 187 of 383.
ScotlandsPeople, "Church Registers," database and images,
(https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : accessed 21 May 2017); marriage
of James Craig & Janet Hunter Houstoun; 16/11/1829 CRAIG, JAMES (Old
Parish Registers Marriages 644/1 410 116 Glasgow) Page 116 of 733.
I'm simply copying the reference that Scotland's People add to the image
and put on your page of bought images when you download it and putting
that in the Credit line of the source detail. Perhaps it should be
preceded by citing.
Cathy
Jenny M Benson <mailto:[email protected]>
Sunday, 23 June 2019 6:03 AM
On 22-Jun-19 09:39 PM, Andrew Robbie wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to standardize on some more <solid> source references, and
am trying my best to use SourceWriter to it's limits. But I am
struggling to understand, or find the info on, what detailed
information each path through the create master source wizard process
creates different detailed info form when referencing that master
source.
I have to admit that I do not understand what you mean.
Have you checked out any of Geoff's webinars? - especially Sources and
Citations Made Simple, Standard and Powerful.
Is there any
tutorial or help that will give me this information? E.g. see
below.
Looking at your image (and I should point out that you should NOT post
images to LUG), you do not appear to have added any information to the
Master Source, other than a Title. Any facts which are going to be
consistent every time you cite that Source should be included in the
Master Source.
Also, related to sources, I was wondering if others struggle with
source formats too, and we could create a library of well used source
templates with all the correct fields already set up for others to
simply import? For example, the one I am struggling with right now is
Scotland Old Parish Records for Marriages - when I go down the path
of Church Records, Online Images, etc. I get this detailed info
entry form (called Source Detail), which is not really up to snuff.
Where do I put the OPR reference info for the parish, for example ?
All I see is Title, and Item of Interest for a Marriage source?
Which Master Source did you select to use for the OPRs?
You could put the Parish reference into the Item of Interest field,
could you not?
It's important to remember that with Source Writer you do not HAVE to
fill in every field if some of them don't seem relevant in a particular
interest, and you don't always have to use a field for exactly what it's
Field Name implies. As you are building a Source, both at Master Source
and Source Detail stage an Output Preview appears at the right-hand side
of the screen so you can see if what you are entering "works".
So, I’d like to be able to create a nice template for all commonly
used sources that can be exported/imported by all loyal Legacy users.
To save them experiencing the frustrations I am feeling myself…
This sounds like a nice idea, but I think it is probably impractical.
There are so many thousands of different Sources and millions of
associated Details, not to mention people's different ideas of what is
"right." What I have found helps me is to print out screen shots of
the Citations I have created where the information entered is not
exactly what the Field Names might suggest. This way, next time I
come to similar citation I know how I handled it last time and can be
consistent.
Andrew Robbie <mailto:[email protected]>
Sunday, 23 June 2019 4:39 AM
Hi,
I'm trying to standardize on some more <solid> source references, and
am trying my best to use SourceWriter to it's limits. But I am
struggling to understand, or find the info on, what detailed
information each path through the create master source wizard process
creates different detailed info form when referencing that master
source. Is there any tutorial or help that will give me this
information? E.g. see below.
Also, related to sources, I was wondering if others struggle with
source formats too, and we could create a library of well used source
templates with all the correct fields already set up for others to
simply import? For example, the one I am struggling with right now is
Scotland Old Parish Records for Marriages - when I go down the path of
Church Records, Online Images, etc. I get this detailed info entry
form (called Source Detail), which is not really up to snuff. Where
do I put the OPR reference info for the parish, for example ? All I
see is Title, and Item of Interest for a Marriage source?
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So, I’d like to be able to create a nice template for all commonly
used sources that can be exported/imported by all loyal Legacy users.
To save them experiencing the frustrations I am feeling myself…
Anyone able to help me?
Thanks,
Andrew ROBBIE
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