>cecilia wrote: > > > > Glee wrote: > > > > > ...... the Master > > > Genealogist by Wholly Genes software that allows you to enter > > > unlimited sources for the specific piece of data, assigning sureties > > > for each one of them............. > > > > Can you give the same source a surety for one fact and a different > > surety for another? > > The sureties are part of the source citation and not the source so > each citation connected to a tag/event/fact has its own sureties. > > Most Tags in TMG has 2 Principals, Date, Place and Memo and a surety > with a range of 0 to 3 and - ( = erroneous) can be assigned to each. > > bob gillis <rpgillis@bellatlantic.net> RootsMagic (and its precursor, Family Origins) has the same concept, where you assign a certainty level to each citation of the source. Which makes sense, since most sources contain multiple facts, at varying levels. For example, on a death certificate the date of death should be pretty certain (though there are always exceptions) while the other information, especially if given by a distraught relative, may not be. Terry Terry Brown <terry.brown@acm.org>