Multiple sources may appear in the order entered rather than best source first for the "official" name or event. I use "report" names in my files and usually birth source rather than name source. I do not use Master Locations for events because place holder commas show up in wall charts. Birth order is more important than the exact date for a family history.
Wonder if Legacy 6 will have any way to find children in the wrong order by the best dates of birth without viewing every family? Genealogy programs have variations in data entry fields for multiple names and conflicting event dates found in different sources. Name sources in Legacy may become general sources after a GEDCOM transfer to one of the programs with built-in wall charts and different reports. Fine for a detail collector or serious researcher to have a complex personal family file with a citation for every detail. BUT readers of a family book need to know the most important name and the most likely birth-death dates. A Legacy 5 customer interested in a family book needs to plan data entry so the book report reads well without any further editing. Narrative has misleading count of children if some are left out of the file used for the book report. There is no index for the newly released 1911 Canadian census and many pages are hard to read. Double blind data entry doesn't help if the handwriting is difficult. Two sources agree on the "wrong" spelling of the family name in 1901. If I know exactly where to look, I can find a family and "read" the names even if the 1911 image is poor. Names of neighbors can only be guessed. A descendant report with "too many sources" may have more pages of endnotes than report so the sources are likely to be left out when a family report is distributed. A future researcher needs enough source detail to find the originals but doesn't need the page number for every individual copied from a lengthy family book with index. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "June McDonald" > Firstly is there any rule of thumb as to how many sources (reference > numbers) are acceptable/preferable? On some names I have abt eight. Too > many I feel. Is there a preferred amount? 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
