Sources imported from TMG
Posted: 14 Feb 2019 09:50
I am only now starting to work with my own family history research in fh.
I have been asked by another researcher, to examine the data in wide circulation on the net, based on my trees and report on how much is well sourced.
My sources arrived in TMG from Pedigree via Generations. They were copied from my father's handwritten files. I was ignorant of Mills style source types and eventually adopted the practice in TMG (suggested by an experienced user) of using a "simple source" source type copied from the book Template.
The result is that in reports most of my sources imported to fh now out put in quote marks. But I see the same is true for sources correctly identified as Census.
I dont really mind the quotes being there round the title if that is native to fh. (I assume every source has to have a title?) But if it is due to the format of my imported sources I would like to sort it out.
The next question involves use of source type and source entry in fh itself. The fh source list makes it very easy to tidy sources. So I could now begin to use source types myself. How do people use source types?
I have tended to click on New source on the data entry screen and just fill in just a title so many of my fh sources lack source type.
However the drop down list of source types show a range of imported custom source types including a couple that are not source types at all, but are sources.
Before I add source types and decide which source types to use, please could someone tell me what, if anything, is the significance of source types in fh? Does the source type, once entered determine the fields that are there for that source? And are those templates based on the Mills sources which have been mentioned in another thread?
It is not my intention to bring my source output to a professional genealogical standard but I am used to giving exact sources for historical research and think this is something worth doing. So any comments and suggestion on how to use fh sources would be welcome.
I have been asked by another researcher, to examine the data in wide circulation on the net, based on my trees and report on how much is well sourced.
My sources arrived in TMG from Pedigree via Generations. They were copied from my father's handwritten files. I was ignorant of Mills style source types and eventually adopted the practice in TMG (suggested by an experienced user) of using a "simple source" source type copied from the book Template.
The result is that in reports most of my sources imported to fh now out put in quote marks. But I see the same is true for sources correctly identified as Census.
I dont really mind the quotes being there round the title if that is native to fh. (I assume every source has to have a title?) But if it is due to the format of my imported sources I would like to sort it out.
The next question involves use of source type and source entry in fh itself. The fh source list makes it very easy to tidy sources. So I could now begin to use source types myself. How do people use source types?
I have tended to click on New source on the data entry screen and just fill in just a title so many of my fh sources lack source type.
However the drop down list of source types show a range of imported custom source types including a couple that are not source types at all, but are sources.
Before I add source types and decide which source types to use, please could someone tell me what, if anything, is the significance of source types in fh? Does the source type, once entered determine the fields that are there for that source? And are those templates based on the Mills sources which have been mentioned in another thread?
It is not my intention to bring my source output to a professional genealogical standard but I am used to giving exact sources for historical research and think this is something worth doing. So any comments and suggestion on how to use fh sources would be welcome.