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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Dealing with "Accepted sources"
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:25:59 -0500
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Peter B.Hill wrote:

> The way I have dealt with this problem is to enter the source I used
> (say, Mayflower Family 12), and, in the citation detail, enter, "page
> 123, citing Worcester Co. Wills 4:315". This succinctly gives the
> source you actually used, but also provides the reader with an idea of
> its provenance.


That's what I do too. And it works pretty well if "Worcester Co. Wills
4:315" is all your source gives you. But I find that many books offer a
fuller description of the source in a bibliography or a table of
abbreviations, or the like. But the table of abbreviations approach
doesn't work for my recording, as I never know which people, and thus
which abbreviations, I might need for any given report I might generate
in the future. Thus I want each citation to stand on it's own. County
record books are relatively simple. What about regular books, unusual
sources that require description and provenance, etc.? I really want
them to have a "full footnote" type entry the first time they are cited
(as a source of my source) then a short footnote form after that. But
there is no way to do that in TMG today.

What's required is to allow the user to create source definitions for
the "sources of a source" and then cite those sources within the CD of
citations to the user's direct source. That way the program takes care
of the full and short footnote formatting automatically. Until then, I
tend to put a "full footnote" format in the CD, which is a lot of work,
so I tend to not enter the data at all. :-(

Terry Reigel




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