Michael I have (only) 180+ certificates but counting, to say nothing of all the parish register scans, etc. That would make for one very cumbersome source document. I find one document = one source =two or three citations much easier to cope with mentally. And computer memory is cheap. Ian (Any errors in the above message are due entirely to the use of fat fingers on this Blackberry mini "keyboard") -----Original Message----- From: "Michael Jackson" <mjackson@ntlworld.com> Sender: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:58:16 To: <FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com Subject: [FHU] Sources and Citations Hello I am new to Family Historian and this list and wonder if anyone can suggest if it is better to create a separate Source Record of each Birth Certificate or whether it is sufficient to have one Source Record which supplies general information for all Birth Certificates with the individuals information stored in the citation. I should say I am talking about post 1837 GRO certificates. It seems rather cumbersome and possibly confusing to have many Source Records, often recording the same information. The tutorials seem to suggest that a new Source Record should be created for each individual Birth Certificate. But I may be wrong. Michael from Bracknell ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Michael /Ian I agree 100%. You might end up with 2000 sources, but labelled systematically they are very easy to find in the list. If you use Ancestral Sources for censuses, these also will be filed as one source per family. Easy peasy. I never did discover how to use the "within source" method. Happy filing. Kath __________________ >I have (only) 180+ certificates but counting, to say nothing of all the parish register scans, etc. That would make for one very cumbersome source document. I find one document = one source =two or three citations much easier to cope with mentally.