Hi Michael Over the years I have developed various methods of recording these BMD certificates and records. In the end I have opted to list them thus Birth Certificate any town, any county, any country AN Other any year. This is in the 'sources tab' I then copy the certificate into this source. It is similar to a marriage certificate. Here I edit the source and write , name of church, town, county, country and parish register. As a key word I put marriage certificate The same goes for death certificate and baptism details. I do the same for pre 1837 details and under the 'key word' I put Marriage Record (rather than certificate. This is the way things are set up for baptisms using Ancestral Sources. I believe a later version of AS will include Marriage details. In reality it is up to each individual how they want to process these details. Remember using a Project window for your tree all these are copied onto your back ups. Victor On 18/02/2012 12:58 PM, Michael Jackson wrote: > 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