I am currently changing my data to match Geoff's suggestion on the Legacy web site. I am afraid that whenever you receive GEDCOMs there is a possibility that the sender will not, so this will always be a 'fix as you go' situation. As a wise man once said, to get a perfect life, all you need is perfect people. Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This may have been addressed or covered, but I can't seem to find a > definitive answer.. Please help. > > I have received many GEDCOMs from fellow researchers and finally am > finding > that some really do list sources!!! > > My problem is the format of the source "name". > Let's use the census for an example > > I get > year fed/state census county (no state) Census > year fed/state census county state Census > year county census > year county fed/state census > year county state census > county census year > county state census year > state county year census > state county fed/state census for year > and so on. > > add to this the various vital records such as birth, death, marriage, > obits... land, etc and you can understand my problem > > I was looking for someone whom I thought I had listed with a census > reference, and found that for that year/county, I had 7 source > listings.. > after changing these I have realized a need to go through my source > listings > and reformat the source listings to consolidate/merge the listings. > > How should I "generally format" data. > State, county, city, record type, time? > County, State (City) record type.... > > Please send responses to me and not the list. If sufficient interest, > I will > post a followup to the list. > > Deb Yarbrough > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
