Hi Donna, Your question is a good example that illustrates the difference between a source and a citation. In my opinion, the source entry in your Source List should not specifically refer to your grandfather's funeral card. I recommend that you have an entry in the source list with a title as follows: Family Records: Hrynkiw, Donna (You are the author and the publisher details is "Unpublished Personal Records" This source entry will be the entry to which you link all the personal records you have in your personal files as citations. The Actual Text field for this source entry will contain a brief description of your collection as a whole and how you have it organized. In the source entry for your grandfather's death, you will enter a citation linked to the above source entry with all of the details of the funeral card listed in the citation. The entire text of the genealogical information on the card should be entered in the Actual Text field of the citation. A copy of this citation can be used everywhere else in your file for individuals that are referred to in the genealogical details. Richard Rands At 11:53 AM 3/22/2005 -0800, Donna Hrynkiw wrote: >Greetings all, > >What's the difference between the Actual Text area in Create or >Edit a Source and the Actual Text button when you Cite a Source? > >Are there different circumstances under which the two areas (and they >are separate and distinct) are printed in reports? > >How should they be used? > >For example, I have my grandfather's funeral card. It lists a >significant amount of genealogial information. Should I enter the >entire text under the create/edit source actual text area, or just the >appropriate bit of text under the citation detail actual text area? > >Donna Hrynkiw >Researching HRYNKIW and PETRASH in Ivankiv, Borschiw, Ternopil, >Ukraine c. 1880-1922 >hrynkiw@gmail.com > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/