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From: Nick Shelley <>
Subject: [TMG] Starting to get my sources right
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:00:45 +0100
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Thanks for your thoughts, Lee

> Nick Shelley wrote:
> > Some advice please. Originally I recorded my sources in an ad hoc
> >manner happy in the short term to have made some form of record whilst I
> >managed other aspects of recording family information. Now it is time I
> >got to grips with recording my sources more consistently. I have, for
> >example, the will of a relative a photocopy of which was kindly supplied
> >by a co-researcher. At the moment I have the will sourced under the
> >name of the researcher and the date which I received her information is
> >given in the memo of the source.
> > Can someone guide me into how to set up an appropriate source
> >definition for such an event? Once I get going on my informally set-up
> >sources, hopefully things will get clearer (from a number of points of
> >view)!
>
> Hmm. I think I would record it as the will itself. The actual Source
> Category would depend on whether the photcopy was made of the actual will
> or of the will as recorded in courthouse records. I suggest that you visit
> the TMG Tips website (URL below) and look at the Source Category Templates
> under the TMG Proprietary information. Each Template is listed as well as
> some examples and a few changes as I use them. See if this doesn't clear
> up some of your questions.

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