Don:
Thanks for the tip on using the @ sign. I experimented using various
"symbols" and found that they sort in different orders. For example, a #
sorts above a period, and a + sorts below an @, while a $ sorts below a #
but above a period. This opens up all kinds of possibilities for "tagging"
sources that I had never considered.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Searching Master Source
> I have followed the same basic procedure Bob has discussed below. One
> helpful addition I have made is to start all the place name sources with
> an @ symbol so that they do not co-mingle with surnames. I also use a
> dot (.) in front of the IGI, SSDI, etc type entries to ensure that they
> sort to the top of the list.
>
> Happy hunting, Don
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Fillerup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> > I use only two types of names for a Source List Name - either a
> > place
> > name or a surname. Like Dave, my place names start with a
> > state/province,
> > then county, then city, then type of record - or surname, then given
> > name,
> > then type of record. I try to duplicate the order and headings of the
> > LDS
> > Family History Library Catalog as much as possible. That way, I am
> > intuitively looking up sources the same way the vast majority of the
> > time.
> >
> > Examples: Missouri, Livingston, cemetery - Vol. 1. The "Output"
> > screen at the bottom of the window will quickly tell me if this is the
> > source I want. Or Wyoming, Big Horn - 1860 US Census. Or Fillerup,
> > Albert - birth record. And so on. I file vital record certificates
> > (birth, marriage, death) under surname, given name - birth cert.(for
> > example), although they could just as easily be filed under a
> > location.
> >
> > I never, never start a Source List Name with anything like:
> > Census, or
> > 1860 Census, or Birth Certificate, or Photographs, or Author, or even
> > the
> > title of a book. The only exceptions are the IGI, (which I have
> > renamed to
> > A-IGI so it appears at the top of my list), the Social Security Death
> > Index
> > (likewise renamed to A-SSDI), and the Ancestral File. I have found
> > that
> > every other source fits either under a location or a surname. I try
> > to
> > remember that the Source List Name is for me to easily find the source
> > again, and not necessarily to describe the source - that is left to
> > the
> > other fields. And, I will often temporarily add an "A" to the front
> > of a
> > source name if I am using it a lot - that way it is at the top of the
> > list.
> > When I'm done, I just rename it back to what it was. (I know - I can
> > accomplish the same thing using source tags and/or the source
> > clipboard, but
> > at times its just easier to have three or four sources that I'm using
> > in
> > various combinations right at the top of the Source Name List - I just
> > rename them when I'm done!)
> >
> > Someday, it would be nice to be able to list a source under the
> > Source
> > List Name in more than one way - i.e. fields where I can list the same
> > source name two or three different ways. Of course, a key-word search
> > option would be just as effective!
> >
> > Bob
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