Perhaps as a final comment, on the opening statement in the message below, I will quote from a well-respected book titled "Family History Documentation and Guidelines" published by the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group. While this book is designed to help users of PAF, its advice is just as pertinent for ANY program which has an adequate source entering template. It can be obtained online from http://www.svpafug.org/. Its guidelines are easily adaptable to Legacy's source template.The book was compiled by a group of people who work closely with the Family History Library, I might add. And I am confident there would be "college trained historians" in adequate numbers at the FHL to offer advice to the SVCGG on compilation of this book.
On page 47, under the heading "Repository" it states (in part): The following guidelines are useful for REPOSITORY NAME entries: [QUOTE] Name the person in possession of a book, letter, or other document, even if the person only has a copy of the record. You can list yourself as a repository. Enter the address and telephone number at your discretion. [END QUOTE] Of course, "We, the family historians, will not always be available to contact" as Winifred wrote. That is no problem if the Source is detailed correctly. If it is, a future researcher would have little difficulty in determining just where the original source was found if it was from a public repository. One other writer said he possessed a set of census CD's, and therefore would quote the "repository" as being the original source as where the census was filmed. The source in this instance is the CD, which is in the possession of the writer, and makes him the "repository" (of the CD). He didn't "see" the actual census only the image on the CD he has in his possession. The point with a repository is that it has to relate to the ACTUAL item you are referring to in your source citation. If you have it - you are the repository. If you saw it, or were told about it being somewhere else - that place is the repository - simple. LB On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:17:35 -0600, winmcl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By any college-trained historian's view point or statndards, Marie and the > rest backing up her views are correct. But we should put in the comments > that we have a copy of that record, and where we have the copy stored. Then > all is available in the source record. > > We, the family historians, will not always be availabe to contact. The > actual repository or archives where we obtained our copy of the original > record is far more likely to be available to the next generation of > researchers than our home-stored records will be. > > It is a good idea to see that our records that are original to us or created > by us and have no other source or repository are donated or willed to a good > archive for preservation after we are gone. > > Best wishes in preserving our records. That is what we are all working hard > to accomplish. > Winifred Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
