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From: RootsMagic <>
Subject: Re: [RMagic] Entering Original Sources
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:42:41 -0600
References: <5ffa2ae50908132148p6d7e5effu3d50b05b0e36a7d8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5ffa2ae50908132148p6d7e5effu3d50b05b0e36a7d8@mail.gmail.com>


Just edit the templates. They are just text... they don't pull the
field names over. When you delete or rename a field, it doesn't
change the template at all. You have to edit the template yourself.

- Bruce
http://www.rootsmagic.com



On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:48 PM, M. A. Beldin<> wrote:
> So I have spent an hour trying to figure out how to enter the data from a
> copy of an original marriage license. The marriage license, filled out by a
> minister, is an original civil record. I have no repository city, no
> marriage register number or name.
>
> I copied the marriage record (civil) and edited it. On the Edit Source
> Template screen, left side, I deleted every field except [ItemofInterest]
> [ItemDate] [Repository Cnty] and [RepositorySt]
>
> The Footnote template looks like this:
>
> <[ItemOfInterest], ><([ItemDate]), >[ItemTitle]:  [RepositoryCity],
> [RepositorySt].
>
> Short footnote looks like this
>
> <[ItemOfInterest], ><([ItemDate:Year]), >[ItemTitle].
>
> Bibliography Template
>
> [RepositorySt]. [RepositoryCnty]. [RecordType].
>
> NOTICE: Why does [RepositoryCity] show up in the Footnote template when I
> deleted it? (I copied and pasted these fields directly from the source
> template, this is not a mistype.
>
>  Yet, when I opened the template copy to add the source to the marriage
> fact, this is what it looks like after filling in the boxes:
>
> *Footnote:*
> Carlson-Ekblad Marriage, (11 April 1889), [ItemTitle]: [RepositoryCity],
> Illinois.
>
> [ItemTitle] and [RepositoryCity] are not on the left side of the screen. I
> cannot fill in those fields because they no longer exist in this template
> yet they are showing up in the actual footnote (I even checked a print out
> of the FGS and they are there as well.)
>
> So what am I doing wrong? HOw do I get the template to ask for the
> information I have and not for information I don't have and then not show up
> what I can't fill in ?
>
> Here are all the source templates copied and pasted here:
>
> *Footnote:*
> Carlson-Ekblad Marriage, (11 April 1889), [ItemTitle]: [RepositoryCity],
> Illinois.
>
> *Short Footnote:*
> Carlson-Ekblad Marriage, (1889), [ItemTitle].
>
> *Bibliography:*
> Illinois. Ford County. [RecordType].
>
>
> Thanks
> Margie in Washington State
>
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