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From: "Grace S. Green" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] endnotes
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:55:43 -0400


Judy, I also do as Pratt does. Put everything in the individual's
bigrography, such as land and court transactions, their occupation, any
church minutes, all the history of their lives.

I only have my sources in endnotes.

Grace Green
Cisco, GA for the Summer.
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Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TMG] endnotes


>In a message dated 7/24/2000 9:14:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
><< Another reason for writing is about my endnotes......they look
> beautiful....however, they are almost as lengthy as the narrative account!
> Is this normal? Who would ever read through all of that....besides a
> genealogist? My mother is writing a book and I offered to print out the
> genealogy in journal narrative style (reverse register) with
> endnotes......Mom took one look at it and rejected it.....said it was
> beautiful, but I ought to write my own book since she wasn't comfortable
> with all my detail. Her account of my grandfather's family is one of
> anecdotal history and stories....and it is quite good.....it is family
> history not genealogy, I realize......but I feel somewhat rejected and am
> wondering what I am going to do with this "masterpiece" I've created? I
> have 62 pages of genealogy followed by 43 pages of endnotes. Is that an
> excessive number of endnotes? Are there ways to consolidate them?
> >>
>Judy,
>
>I use unique endnotes for reports I send to other genealogist but for other
>people I usually just create a report with a bibliography. I'm currently
>working on a project which will be a combination of quite a few descendant
>genealogy reports, each descendants of report will have its own
bibliography.
>This method will help narrow the sources down for each particular family
but
>won't create the number of pages the same report would with endnotes.
>
>Patt Ricketts
>Redondo Beach, CA
>
>

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