A few years back, FOW changed from the concept of an all inclusive source to the Source and Citation method. In this concept the Source references the basic area where information comes from and the details that do not change, and the Citation contains the specific details which are generally unique to one or more usages. There are no real rules on how to separate this information. Each user can do it as the wish, but establish some type of general standards or guidelines. Try a few methods and look at the various reports to see the results. In your examples, the "DAR Application" and "Newspaper Obit" would typically be the Sources, and the balance of the info would be in the Citation. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter M. Morris" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 12:51 PM Subject: [FO] Sources question > G'day all, > > This may seem an elementary question but it's been troubling me for a while > with no clear answer appearing so I though I'd ask the experts! 8-) > > I have six sources that are all Daughters of the American Revolution > membership applications. Presently I have them each listed separately as: > DAR Application by xxx, DAR Application by yyy, etc . . . > > I'm wondering if this is the best or most appropriate way. Another example: > I have several newspaper obituaries from the same paper on different dates. > Presently, they each listed separately, but I'm wondering that's best or > 'standard practice.' > > The part that throws me off is all the different fields in the Source > records, particularly Source Text, which would seem to suggest each source > is listed individually. On the other hand, there is hardly enough space to > list ALL of the source text. So what does that mean, anyway? > > Thoughts, suggestions? > > Peter Morris > Vista, CA > USA > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/