Tamblyne wrote:
> The book states the citation should read (italics omitted, of course):
>
> Jane Smith obituary, The Small Town Times, Podunk, Anystate, 1 January
> 2000, page 1, column 1.
>
> The output I get following the "Tips" instructions is:
>
> The Small Town Times (Podunk, Anystate), Jane Smith obituary, 1 January
> 2000, page 1 column 1.
>
> There are similar problems with the other "Tips" given for source
> citations.
I too have a copy of Ms Mills' book.
It's a good book, but IMO not a great one for exactly the reason you
state. Legacy has the best sourcing capability of any Genie program
I've used. It's certainly much better than FTM's, but I don't know about
TMG. The problem with Shown-Mills' book is that it doesn't relate to
the reality of doing Genealogy with a computer program.
She defines her ideal, but doesn't say how to achieve it with any program.
I don't think any program could do it her way. Not unless the program's
developers decided to make that a goal of their reporting functions.
Maybe TMG is compliant with her standards. I don't think FTM is.
Obviously Legacy doesn't as you've learned the hard way.
So you have two choices twist your sources all around to comply
with one woman's opinion of what's "right" or do it in a way that
is natural for the program. I go with the way the program wants to
work. Saves me stressing about stuff that IMO really isn't that important.
I don't think it's that important because, looking at the two lines above
there isn't a lot to choose from. The order of things is slightly
different,
but the information is there, and it's well laid out and logical.
Or you can ask that Legacy 7 generate reports that are compliant with
her standards. I doubt that'll happen though, since the trend of Legacy's
development over the last two releases has been to focus on improving
and more highly automating the research end of genealogy with only
relatively modest improvements to report and chart creation.
jr
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