> 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 existence of a SOURCE template in your program does not mandate your use of it, you know. (g) If your "source" matches the template, fine, use it. If not, dump your info into the TEXT/More About/NOTES/ Narrative section of your program. Cheryl singhals@erols.com