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From: "Floyd & Sarah Della Corte" <>
Subject: TMG-L: Using a generic Ancestral File source
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:00:25 -0600

Sarah Della Corte wrote:

>I'm sure that others have tried to make Ancestral File a generic source,
rather than entering zillions of AFN entries. So I'm hoping that someone
can tell me how they solved this problem.

Lee Hoffman answered:

>I think what you want is something like this for:
Full Footnote:
< [CD],> [ITAL:]Ancestral File[:ITAL], LDS Fam. Hist. Lib.,
Salt Lake City. where the Citation Detail (if any) contains the additional
information, and for:
Short Footnote:
[ITAL:]Ancestral File[:ITAL]<, [CD]>.
and for Bibliography:
[ITAL:]Ancestral File[:ITAL]. LDS Fam. Hist. Lib.,
Salt Lake City.

You can achieve the above using the below Patterns for:
Full Footnote:
<[COMPILER], compiler, ><"[TITLE]";>< [CD],> [ITAL:]
Ancestral File[:ITAL]<, [VERSION]> <([DATE]), >
[REPOSITORY], [REPOSITORY ADDRESS]<. Hereinafter
cited as "[SHORT TITLE]">.
Short Footnote:
<[COMPILER], ><"[SHORT TITLE]", >[ITAL:]Ancestral
File[:ITAL]<, [CD]>.
and Bibliography:
[ITAL:]Ancestral File[:ITAL]<, [VERSION]>. [REPOSITORY],
[REPOSITORY ADDRESS]<, [DATE]>.

Lee,

I think this will accomplish what I want. I'm amazed at how easy it is to
manipulate the footnotes. I got rid of the duplicate "Ancestral File" in
the short footnote by simply erasing it from the short footnote pattern.
So simple!

Thank you all for your help. Now I'm off to trying a generic, or general,
source for censuses. I hope it gives me less trouble.

Sarah

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