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From: Lewis Peregory <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: new to list (merge multiple sources)
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 15:57:44 -0800


TRACY REINHARDT wrote:

> Greetings
>
> Thanks to those who replied about my merging source headache.
> What happened to me was not a unusual problem I take it. When still using
> FTM, I uncovered a family history compiled in 1917, that was very total and
> complete, to the tune of 611 descendants of a revolutionary war couple, on down
> to 1917, when my mother-in-law was listed, at age 3. So, being the
> genealogists that I am, every single birth, marriage and death date had the
> source note of "Jane Doe's 1917 family history research".
>
> There were no pages, or special notes to add, so every source note reads the
> same.
> Once I look up and confirm the dates, they will get an additional source
> notation of the public document, but until then, I had a large volume of data
> with a single source.
>
> Imagine my frustration, when I find a genealogy program which will allow me to
> document sources more completely, and then find that every entry of "Jane Doe's
> family history research" is listed as a separate source, and I can't merge
> them all at once. 2000 sources instead of one, all of them identical!!!!!
>
> To quote Garfield.........."AAARRGGGGGGHHH"
>
> Oh well, I keep plugging away.
>
> Tracy
>

Tracy,

This appears to be a secondary source anyway. You probably want to verify the
souces in the original 1917 genealogy. If it does not have sources, you will
probably want to list the page numbers of this source in the citation detail. I
think you will find it quite profitable to redo these sources. At least, that has
been my experience. Is there no way to merge the sources in FTM?

Lewis


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