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    1. FW: [FO] Coordinating Family Origins/Rootsmagic & Clooz
    2. Mike RANSOM
    3. Dottie wrote [see original message below]: response: A printed list of sources [using Reports | Lists | source list] will print them in the same alphabetical order that you see when you "cite a source" -- the alphabetical order you created as the [source manager] NAME when you created the source. However, the printed list will show the DESCRIPTION field, which may vary from the "shortcut" NAME. For instance, you might (for sorting) name a source "WARREN, Billybob", but if you "describe" it as "Billybob WARREN, 123 Havitchur Way, Burgerville USA", then it will print [alphabetically in the "W's"] as "Billybob WARREN, 123..etc", which looks un-alphabetical for your list. I'd suggest planning to both "describe" and "name" each source in the same manner you use in Clooz, and then the lists will coincide. I love the source manager system in FO and RM, where I can have one "source", say "1890 US census", and then enter details for each person citing state, county, page, content, etc. When I print a list from source manager or reports | lists, I can get a list of each person's entry under source "1890 US census". For my database of 1400 people, I have 200 sources [could be consolidated to about 100] and 1400 citations. The list is 10 pages without citations, and 60 pages with all the citations included. The same principle applies to library collections, books with lots of people, and generic items like death index, marriage index, city directory, marriage license, Worldtree/AFT/other sites. I have no idea how to get that to happen in Clooz [probably another list at rootsweb!]. Mike RANSOM -----Original Message----- From: CzechDot@aol.com [mailto:CzechDot@aol.com] Subject: [FO] Coordinating Family Origins/Rootsmagic & Clooz When I print off a list of the sources in Family Origins, the file name in file manager does not show up on the printed list. The first thing that comes up is the author, not the name of the book or the name of the person who has a birth or death certificate (if I have put the state as the author of the document). Does anyone have a good way to enter a source in both programs so the printed list of sources will come up with similar names without deleting the authors? Will Rootsmagic have a different way that sources are listed? I have ordered it and wonder if I should wait to get it before I try to coordinate my sources in the two programs.

    12/28/2002 04:58:42