Hi Michael The Source is the source of your information, i.e. where you get it from. Each Source has it's Repository. Each Individual who has a piece of information can 'cite' a Source, giving it's reference etc. So a GRO Birth reference may 'cite' the reference 'Eastbourne 2b 123 Sep Qtr 1865'. Its Source would be, say, FreeBMD or Blagshire Record Office. Its simple really, if the information you want to store is about an Individual then store it in the Citation record which is unique to the individual, if it is about the Source then store it in the Source record, a source can have many citations. I agree that it is so confusing to have too many Source records and why duplicate the information. Yes, like you, I believe the Tutorial is wrong but that is just an opinion. On one of my families my Source records stand at 70 with 4000 individuals. I have approx 8000 Citations. David -----Original Message----- From: family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:family-historian-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Michael Jackson Sent: 18 February 2012 12:58 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4816 - Release Date: 02/17/12 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4816 - Release Date: 02/17/12

I also favour the source per certificate route, it makes it easy to find any related citations and this can be very important when you discover one certificate was the wrong one, to undo related information. You can easily use a query to filter information by the source Type to find people who don't have a Birth Certificate as a source. The fact you can easily attach a media record to a source and report on it, is another reason I prefer this method.