Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-17 Thread cranberryfrog
: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method I have a book which includes abt 6000 family members. Basically 300 pages of FGS and notes, etc. I transcribed the whole book. Each person had a different detail about them. The quantity from the book should not affect which to include. USE ALL. Ihe computer

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-17 Thread atlantajm
.) -Original Message- From: cranberryfrog cranberryf...@cobridge.tv To: LegacyUserGroup LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sat, Sep 17, 2011 7:51 am Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method Unless the people are completely sourced, I would not add them to my atabase. I would use

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-17 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 4:50 AM Unless the people are completely sourced, I would not add them to my database.  I would use the book as a starting point to do my own research. michele -Original Message

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-17 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
I agree.Rich in LA CA  --- On Sat, 9/17/11, atlant...@aol.com atlant...@aol.com wrote: From: atlant...@aol.com atlant...@aol.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 9:45 AM Except that my mother wrote a book

RE: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-16 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
Subject: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method Geoff includes all the info from a source in the source detail, whether the source is a census, obituary, etc. How is a source such as a book of family history handled? It contains pages and pages on many individuals and families. This appears to be too

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-16 Thread Paula Ryburn
Weller Williams - Original Message From: Geoff Rasmussen ge...@legacyusers.com To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Fri, September 16, 2011 2:29:16 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method I would transcribe that portion of the page that you are citing into the source

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-16 Thread Kirsten Bowman
@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method Geoff includes all the info from a source in the source detail, whether the source is a census, obituary, etc. How is a source such as a book of family history handled? It contains pages and pages on many individuals and families

RE: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-16 Thread Geoff Rasmussen
16, 2011 12:53 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method Geoff, If you were quoting from the book in the Event Notes, would you ALSO put the same text into the citation??? (in my case it's a long hand-written letter, where I want the individual's

Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method

2011-09-16 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
many. Which relatives will you leave out because there might be TOO MANY from one source. Rich in LA CA --- On Fri, 9/16/11, Dean Adams dgadam...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dean Adams dgadam...@gmail.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Date