On 3/15/15 6:54 PM, Robert and Torie Salas via wrote: > I have an ancestor who fathered 10 children with the same > wife over 12 years, and I have now obtained the 10 birth > certificates. Each states that he was a butcher and lived > at the same place. Do people add 10 Occupation facts, each > with a different source and 10 Residence facts, each with a > different source to the one ancestor? I understand that > philosophically / methodologically this is what should be > done but doesn't such activity create a lot of clutter? > > > > This is posted here as I couldn't find anywhere else that > seemed more suitable. If there is, I am happy for > suggestions. > > > > Cheers > > Robert Salas > > (South Australia) > the subject and the body of the message > It really depend on how you intend to use the database. If your intent is to be a detail list of known evidence, then you should enter a separate tag for each source since the data is slightly different (different effective dates). More commonly, the database is used as a summary of your conclusions, with the accumulation of the evidence provided by the sources, in which case, you have a single occupation and residence fact, with 10 sources (or more from other evidence) attached. The latter method will generate better output for most casual usage. -- Richard Damon