FTM has embraced Elizabeth Shown Mills style source referencing, but only in what I consider a third rate way. Too many clicks to get to them, and too few degrees of freedom to tweak them for real life purposes. My wish is that they get serious about them and do a first rate job of implementing them and letting users define their own as in the book Evidence Explained and all the QuickSheets showing templates for all manner of source types. The best implementation I have seen, about a year or more ago, was by the Legacy program. It has a large set of templates from Evidence Explained, prompts you to fill out the fields for that type in a nice form style html window, and off to one site it shows the result as you build it. I think it has the Full, Short, and Bibliographic(List) styles. (maybe only two, I forget). It didn't meet all my criteria for such an implementation, but it was the best I've seen. How about doing this in FTM Ancestry? Your source referencing is a mess as far as I am concerned. Anyone else here like a more Legacy like implementation of this? (will post this also to feedback in a moment). John

John, Actually, the Family Tree Maker program, since FTM2010 (if I remember correctly) DOES create EE style Templates. They are also in FTMM-3.  Learning how to use them may take a minute, but once you know what the output contains, what the Source Template contains, the Citation information can be entered in the Citation Detail and Citation Text easily. I am NOT talking about what Ancestry.com gives us, only what Family Tree Maker can do for us. Russ   ___________________________ Mailto:[email protected] ________________________________ From: John Yates <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, January 5, 2014 10:22 PM Subject: [FTM-TECH] Evidence Style Source Reference Templates FTM has embraced Elizabeth Shown Mills style source referencing, but only in what I consider a third rate way. Too many clicks to get to them, and too few degrees of freedom to tweak them for real life purposes. My wish is that they get serious about them and do a first rate job of implementing them and letting users define their own as in the book Evidence Explained and all the QuickSheets showing templates for all manner of source types. The best implementation I have seen, about a year or more ago, was by the Legacy program. It has a large set of templates from Evidence Explained, prompts you to fill out the fields for that type in a nice form style html window, and off to one site it shows the result as you build it. I think it has the Full, Short, and Bibliographic(List) styles. (maybe only two, I forget). It didn't meet all my criteria for such an implementation, but it was the best I've seen. How about doing this in FTM Ancestry? Your source referencing is a mess as far as I am concerned. Anyone else here like a more Legacy like implementation of this? (will post this also to feedback in a moment). John ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message