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    1. [BK] same source, different pages? Also, freeze button for source/page? (Quality on source list?)
    2. J. P. Gilliver (John) via
    3. I have the source for a father's occupation and/or father and mother's place of residence, on a given date, as "register of baptisms", since one or both of those pieces of information are present in the baptism record of one of their children. So, I enter it, including the page reference. I subsequently find the baptism record for another child; I find that the father's occupation and/or parents' place of residence is the same, so I amend the father's record to show now a _range_ of dates. I tab along to the Source square, but find I can't add the new source for this information; since "register of baptisms" is already there, the "add previous source" and "add previous source and page" buttons are absent. I thought I'd ask it as a more general question: when you find a second source for the same piece of information (possibly with a different date as in this case, possibly not), but it is on another page/film/whatever in a source you already have for that piece of information, what do you do? (In my case, I could only see two options: either edit the existing entry to add both to the "page" box [although it isn't a very big box and the string length does have a fairly small limit], or not record the second page. I chose the latter, as I didn't want to corrupt the BK "memory" of the page, as there might have been other data in the entry I wanted to use the "same source and page" button for.) John, any chance of a "freeze" button for the "last source" and "last source and page" facilities? Quite often, I'm entering lots of data from a given source, and I find those two buttons most useful; however, sometimes (especially if the data conflicts!) I want to go into and look at one of the existing sources (say, to see what quality level I'd ascribed, or if I'd added any notes that might help explain the discrepancy) - but going into the earlier source then corrupts the "memory". It's just occurred to me that it'd be useful if the quality rating - just the figure (blank, 0, 1, 2, or 3) - could be visible in the _list_ of sources. (Wouldn't completely eliminate the above, but might help - and I think it'd be a useful thing, anyway.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The middle classes have no real value in television terms, apart from as a spawning ground for TV-drama serial murderers. Spot a man in glasses reading a book and you can guarantee his hobby is showing dismembered prostitutes down drains as Mahler's Symphony No 5 plays on the stereo. Killers just love classical music. - Alison Graham, RT 2014/12/6-12

    05/04/2015 05:00:43