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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Sources
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 18:07:42 -0500


wrote:
>
> In updating my files from FTM I am having some trouble identifying shat
> categories to place sources into. Can anyone help me?
>
> I have a genealogy written by a distant cousin, unsourced. Would this be a
> manuscript?
>
Yes

> city directories on microfilm. Are these town records or what?
>
There is a City Directory

> Baby books written by the parents?
>
No quick thoughts except the bible source might fit.

> Exerpted biographical notices from newspapers? Although this is a card file
> in Ireland it is filmed by the LDS.
>
Are these obituaries? I have created or modified obituary/newspaper
article. the full footnote is: <[ARTICLE TITLE]>, [ITAL:][NEWSPAPER
TITLE][:ITAL], [LOCATION]<, [DATE]><, [PAGE]><, [CD]><. Hereinafter
cited as [SHORT NEWSPAPER TITLE]>.

> Church records or cemetery records from ledgers. Who authors it?
>
> AND, how do you suppress unknown author, etc., on the Bibliography?
>
When you say ledgers do you mean films of the original records or
transcripts of the originals? I have created a Source "Church Vital
Records" to handle baptism, marriage and death/burial records and will
hadle either. The Full Footnote is:[TITLE]<: [CD]><, ([DATE])><,
[COMMENTS]>, [REPOSITORY], [REPOSITORY ADDRESS]<. Hereinafter cited as
[SHORT TITLE]>.

Since the "author" (unless you assume the clergyman who performed the
cenemony is)or transcriber or compiler, I often put <> brackets around
that item so it prints only when there is something in the field.

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