Just ran across the article http://www.ancestry.com/learn/start/famgroupsheets.htm?rc=locale%7E&us=0 in LEGACY NEWS that describes the way I started keeping track of sources 20 years ago. The problem I'm having is trying to find a practical way of inputing this information into the source documentation of Legacy or PAF. If all I had was one source for each piece of information, I guess it wouldn't be overly difficult. The problem is having perhaps a dozen or more group sheets for an individual documenting census records, church records, birth/death/marriage certificates, family interviews, etc., many with differing dates, names, places, etc. How do you pull all this information together using the source documentation features of these programs to document how you arrived at your conclusions for the names and dates used as well as documenting conflicting information in case additional data shows that your original conclusion was wrong? I'd like to have a complete set of electronic information to make it easier to transmit in one package rather than having various sets of binders and folders, but haven't been able to see a practical way of doing that. Seems like I could spend the next few years just entering data with no time left for further research. Have the majority of users of the various genealogy programs actually found it practical to use them for source documentation? If someone offers an online course for use of these programs to help me see an easier way, I'd sure appreciate the info. "Mark Granback" <NoGranmarkSpam@yahoo.com>

> The problem is having perhaps a dozen or more group sheets for an > individual documenting census records, church records, birth/death/marriage > certificates, family interviews, etc., many with differing dates, names, > places, etc. How do you pull all this information together using the source > documentation features of these programs to document how you arrived at your > conclusions for the names and dates used as well as documenting conflicting > information in case additional data shows that your original > conclusion was wrong? I'd like to have a complete set of electronic > information to make it easier to transmit in one package rather than having > various sets of binders and folders, but haven't been able to see a > practical way of doing that. Seems like I could spend the next few years > just entering data with no time left for further research. Have the > majority of users of the various genealogy programs actually found it > practical to use them for source documentation? Mark, I started out putting each source in the "source" section of Legacy. I soon was overwhelmed with one-time sources, with the information separated [on the screen] from the person. Now I use the event section and notes for most of this. In Legacy you can name any "event" you want and if you have the deluxe edition you can override the sentence structure. I put the census, social security, obits, speculations, descriptions of how I came to the conclusion that so and so was the daughter of whichamacallit in these fields, either for the individual or the marriage. I now use "source" in the program for a source that applies to many people, such as a printed genealogy. Joan B "Joan Best" <joanbest@earthlink.net>