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From: "Caroline Gurney" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Master Source List
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:20:21 +0100
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Ann wrote:

> After pondering over this last night, I believe your logic about 1 IGI
source
> will be the best way for me. Would you elaborate as to whether you agree
or
> have another suggestion as to the following 2 records I obtained from FHL?
> Finding them in IGI, I received microfilm of the pastor's recording in the
> First German Presbyterian Church on Rivington St. NY, etc. These are
copies
> of the pages of the original entries, one for Ludwig and Magdelena's
marriage
> 27 Aug 1969, the other for christening (which also includes a birth date)
of
> their son Rochus Ludwig Wenner 29 Aug 1869. In Source Definition for IGI
what
> goes in the Subject field? Would one be marriage, the other be
christening?
> What is the Date field for? Date when I obtained the record? In the
Citation
> Detail area is that where I'd put the different Batch #'s and other info
such
> as the parents birth places, any witnesses (these records are scribble
> scratch) I can make out.

Ann,

Aha! Now everything becomes clear. The sources you want to cite are *not*
IGI entries after all but actually microfilm copies of the church register
entries which you just happened to find using the IGI as the Index to them.

You should not therefore use the IGI source template to cite these sources.
If you are using the Lackey-style source templates in TMG you have the
template for Church Records and if you are using the Mills-style templates
you have separate templates for both Baptismal and Marriage records. Since I
don't use these templates myself, I'll leave it to someone else to suggest
how best to fill these in with the information you have given above.

> Since I've not printed out any report yet, just what of the above prints
out
> in a report? Does all the info in the Citation Detail field print out or
do I
> have control over that?

Yes, you have control over whether the CD prints or not. In TMG 4.0 this is
done on the Report Definition screen > Publication Tools > Sources - check
or uncheck the box to suppress citation details. In TMG 5.0 this
functionality is not yet available.

Caroline Gurney
Portsmouth, UK


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