The way I label my sources is by location: USA, Kentucky, Taylor, Saloma - CENSUS 1900 USA, Illinois, Bureau, Bureau - BOOK Abc England, Sussex, .... Ireland, ..... This way all the records for a given location are together. It makes it easier for me to mark information with a source. Alan > > From: "Sandy Rozhon" <srozhon@comcast.net> > Date: 2005/06/15 Wed PM 12:28:24 EDT > To: PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAF-5] 'Source' disaster > > Just a warning.... > > I wanted to tidy up my sources so I carefully arranged them so that > they looked something like this: > > [BOOK] History of Cuyahoga County > [DEATH] Necrology Index > [CENSUS] 1880 Federal Census > [CENSUS] 1890 Federal Census > > You get the picture. Generic headings where I could use more detail > in the citation to describe the item. > > Anyway, upon importing several gedcoms from people that didn't follow > any particular convention and finding that there were a lot of > duplicates, I chose to do a 'source merge'. This is where the > disaster occurred. ALL of the sources that had brackets have > disappeared! Gone! Poof! Not to be seen again. > > So take this as a warning that there must be something in the code of > the merge routine that chokes on brackets or other odd characters > that are the start of a source title and spits them out as unusable. > Then are no longer in your source list. > > And, in this case, I can't go back to a backup, because I had no idea > this occurred until recently. > > Sandy > > > ==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== > PAF-5-USERS Mailing List Archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAF-5-USERS/ > >