Some people like every minute detail documented with the birth certificates, census, or other record sources. How we go about our documentation and what we include depends on how we are going to use our databases. My primary family history goal was to produce readable and hopefully somewhat interesting documents to share with other family, so I simplify my data entry to support the readability goal while supplying the reader with the opportunity to check out my sources should they wish to. I printed out a series of family history books a few years back. Even with limiting how specific I was with sourcing, I had many many pages that were 1/2 of the page in footnotes. It is really important to experiment how you want your presentations to look on paper or online for that matter. We have all seen databases on line that may have had good information, but one could not follow the way the information was presented. The beauty with RM is that we can be as picky or as general in what we include. Do think about your final goal for your data presentation as you decide how to enter data and how redundant you want to be. -----Original Message----- From: Robert and Torie Salas via Subject: [RMagic] Common Source Details 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?