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From: "Teresa Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Data set question -- I wanna lump
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:17:52 -0500
In-Reply-To: <443038D6.9648.35082C@waxtadpole.comcast.net>


That is the method I use. One thing you can do is once that household has
been cited, is make that source inactive. Then it will only show in the
MORE window of the MSL. This can help cut down on the number of sources you
have to hunt through to find a certain book you want to source.

I used to make the building the repository, until about a year and a half
ago when I decided to change to the microfilm roll. The beauty of my new
system is I can attach tasks to the repository (the microfilm roll) and when
I get enough tasks, I can order that roll of film for the archives, or FHL.
My source output still looks the same, but I only have to type in the film
information one time. I use the TSLA (Tennessee State archives) most of the
time. IF they suddenly renumber all their films, I only have to edit 50
repositories, not several hundred sources. To me it just made more sense to
do it that way for my research.
Not being a lumper, I am not sure how you would get a list of tasks for a
certain roll of film. If you are a splitter and are very careful to put the
roll into the same source element data field, then you should be able to
print a list of sources with Roll 29 in that field. I can simply print a
list of sources attached to a certain repository. Since my Title for the
source has 1820-Rutherford Co., TN-Billy Bob Jones, I can print a list of
tasks for my repository No 61 which is Giles, Maury, Rutherford, Shelby,
Stewart, and Sumner Counties, TN, [National Archives Microfilm M33, Roll No.
124] and I will get all the heads of households, including Billy Bob Jones'
that are attached as sources to that roll of film.

Each person has their own way of doing things in TMG and there's no right or
wrong way. The biggest thing you need to be aware of is how things will
GEDCOM out of TMG if you ever plan to use GEDCOM. Once you have made that
decision and are aware of how GEDCOM works, you can easily select a system
that works best for you.



Teresa Ghee Elliott-IBSSG
TMG sentences
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG%20census%20t
emplates/TMG.html


-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Rhodes [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 7:49 PM
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Subject: RE: [TMG] Data set question -- I wanna lump



On 1 Apr 2006 at 20:55, Teresa Elliott wrote:


> Lumping and splitting has to do mostly with how
> you handle sources. Do you have one source per
> household on a census, or one source per county?


One per household, which is dictated by the citation
format I've learned.

It's a format that lends itself to splitting. My philosophy
generally is not conducive to lumping. Therefore I'll
have the same source cited a number of times,
depending on how many of my family I've found in that
source. And I don't mind that a bit.


> I have one per household, with the source
> being how to find that household, and the
> repository being the census microfilm roll.


By me, the repository would be either the National
Archives, if I got the microfilm from them, or in the
case of certain Florida censuses, I would use as the
repository the Southern Genealogists Exchange
Society Library in Jacksonville. That's my local
society, and they hold a number of years of censuses
for Florida. The repository, to me, is the actual
building where the actual physical source for whatever
I obtained is located. That comes from me having
been a librarian. <smile>


> Most people just put that information into the source
> information. I prefer having it separate,
> because then I can see how many people
> are on a certain roll easily.


Could one set up a report which would be based on
the roll, and list all the people found on it? That's
more my speed.

Thanks for the discussion.

Karen Rhodes, IBSSG
(yup, me, too, though I don't participate on the list very
often)




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