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

.... Oh, and of course one source = one multimedia (image) makes for increased sanity too ! 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, Do have a look at Ancestral Sources which provides a convenient way of entering Census and Baptism, and shortly Marriage data into FH. (Later it will add Death, Burial, and Probate). Consider a Census for a household. Create a Source for that Census return and link an image of the Census page. In the Source property box add a transcript of the Census for all the people present that day, with their ages, birth place, occupation, etc. That could lead to many, many Citations each linked to a Census, Birth and Occupation Fact for each person. All the information related to that Census Return is in one place, in the Source Record, and if it needs updating, only one set of data needs changing. If on the other hand you have one Source say for the entire 1911 UK Census, then if you want to record a transcript for one household where do you put it? If you put the transcript in the Citation Text From Source, then you will have to replicate it in each of the many Citations identified above. Then if it needs to change, all the replicas will need to be found and changed. Note that Ancestral Source will support either approach, but recommends the former. It gives a fuller explanation in its Help. If you have not done so, then I recommend joining the FHUG at http://www.fhug.org.uk/cgi-bin/index.cgi where there have several discussions on this topic. Regards, Mike Tate -----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