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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Source data
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:49:59 -0400
References: <7a.3971ce9.261e2aa5@cs.com>


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> Thanks so much for answering my query! Let me try an outline my situation
> hopefully in a clearer fashion than in my original letter. The first point I
> should make is that my 95% of my research is obtained from the records
> generated in Sweden and Finland. Therefore, the majority of my sources are
> the church records of those countries. I like to include the language of the
> original Birth/Baptism, Marriage and Death/Burial somewhere in my
> documentation. This normally involves 1 to 3 sentences (there are always
> exceptions to that however). My English interpretation of those records may
> not always be correct or complete, therefore I want the original version
> available in my documentation. >

I gather you want to quote the original Swedish or Finnish record
wording. Then I would put it in the Citation Detail.

>In my experimenting with TMG I initial placed
> this information in the memo field of the event tag in the fashion you gave
> above: Source A ( name of source) says "C&P", Source B Says "C&P" etc. This
> method is a possibility but would require me to repeat my source which seems
> redundant and could also cause confusion as to which source I'm citing. If
> there was only 1 source i.e. birth/baptism record from "such & such" parish
> that might be okay but that is not always the case.
>

For each person or tag there would be only one Church Record Citation.
You would put in only that information that would pertain to that person
and tag.

> My non-original sources would include: Farm history books, biographies of
> clergy, family histories of prominent tradesman etc. Each of these sources
> would contain information on extended families not just one individual. In
> these cases it would be nice to "enter" this information once (word
> processing text or scanned image). Would these types of sources be best
> handled as Exhibits? Can I connect hundreds of individual event tags to one
> Exhibit?
>

I think that most people enter wills, deeds and other such documents but
not entire books or large sections thereof. To do what you want to do I
would either transcribe or scan the books and make them addenda to your
report. You would have to check the copyright situation on these books
to see if you can do it.

> In summary:
> (1). I have literally thousands of entries of BMD records from the church
> records of Sweden and Finland which I wish to quote and connect to the
> source. The memo method would work but I'm not too happy with it. >

As I said above enter the record as found into the citation detail.

> To enter
> this info into the Citation Event Screen as Citation Detail for each
> individual event tag seems to work nicely (although against the general
> rules).>

Against what general rules? If you want to quote the source as well as
tell where in the church record the information is, go right ahead.

>Using this method, printouts include my original quotes into the
> source information for each person.>

Isn't that what you want?

> Another alternative would be to put this
> info into an event tag Exhibit. This might work too but I can't seem to get
> it to print out (back to reading the manual).
>
> (2) Other sources include published histories that make reference to
> extended family members. Would these sources be best handled as Exhibits?
> Can I connect hundreds of individual event tags to one Exhibit? If so, how
> do I do it??
>

I think you are mixing sources and exhibits. You can make a citation to
a source such as a book for as many people and tags as you want. Why do
you want to quote these secondary sources? As I said above if you do
want to include portions of secondary sources in your report, add the
text or picture where you want it in your word processor.

bob gillis

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