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From: Chuck Wolfram <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Finding a specific person with a specific source - naming a new source template
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 00:41:24 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <200310260405.h9Q45Nke005516@lists5.rootsweb.com>

Sorry, my e-mail client sent a work in progress long
before it was ready to be sent and without my
permission. I'm sorry about the unwanted post. For
the reply, see below.

Chuck

> From: "Nancy U. Anderson" <> wrote:

>
> 2) Here in New Mexico, we have a lot of Spanish
> Archive
> films that contain wills, deeds, etc plus many
> Catholic
> Archdiocese records for baptisms, burials and
> marriages. So
> I am constantly trying to set a source with the
> right
> information and would really like to make a whole
> new
> template for "microfilm" where all I have to do is
> add
> either SANM (Spanish Archives of New Mexico) or AASF
> (Archdioceses of Santa Fe) and then I can enter the
> roll no.
> and frame no. when I select that source. Any ideas
> out
> there.
> The bibliography would read: Spanish Archives of
> New Mexico
> Microfilm, Series I, Roll #5; Frame #669; Special
> Collections Library, Albuquerque, NM.
>
> or Archdiocese of Santa Fe; Santa Fe Burials, Roll
> #40;
> Frame 881; Special Collections Library, Albuquerque,
> NM.
>

My advice is NOT to include the frame number in the
bibliography. If you include that, it could be an
extremely long bibliography, with an entry for almost
every cite.

If you have v.5 I would add [CITATION REFERENCE] (in
conditionals) to the full and short footnote and
include the frame number there. Do not put that
element in the bibliographic template; the
bibliography should simply refer to the microfilm
roll. That's what they would need; adding frame would
be like adding a page number of a book to the
bibliography. If you have v.4 I'm not sure what to
advise, since I've never used microfilm created in or
after 1997. I would probably use CD2 in a source
template that I would create that would handle 1997
microfilm. Then when I switch to v.5 I would know
where all the sources that use CD2 in that way were at
and I could more easily correct the sources.

Chuck Wolfram

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