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==== Organizing Sources on the Person Page ==== | ==== Organizing Sources on the Person Page ==== | ||
===== Using "Title Sources ===== | ===== Using "Title Sources ===== | ||
If you have more sources for a person than you can easily see here is a way to organize them. Create a source Labeled "Censuses" (or any other title that would help you ie. Reference Works, Birth Records, Marriage records, Death reocrds, Birth records as children). That is all you put in the source, just the title. Then organize your sources so all the similar sources are together. Include a title source and move it to the top of each grouping. Keep these title sources in one folder in your sourcebox and reuse them. See Silas Trowbridge for an example 273W-1MW | If you have more sources for a person than you can easily see here is a way to organize them. Create a source Labeled "Censuses" (or any other title that would help you ie. Reference Works, Birth Records, Marriage records, Death reocrds, Birth records as children). That is all you put in the source, just the title. Then organize your sources so all the similar sources are together. Include a title source and move it to the top of each grouping. Keep these title sources in one folder in your sourcebox and reuse them. See Silas Trowbridge for an example 273W-1MW | ||
===== Editing Sources to include a date to organize them ===== | |||
Some prefer to organize sources chronologically and change the source titles slightly to include a year at the end of the title. See, for example, Evan George Black KWCH-7WG. A chronologically listing allows me to see the sources as a quasi-timeline of the ancestor's life. | |||
<br> Others put the date in the first part of the title so it stands out in the same place on the list rather than at the end of different length titles. You can also include the state 2 digit postal code following the 4 digit year to show where my ancestor migrated. See an example: KFXW-NJ6 | ===== Editing Sources to include a state name and date ===== | ||
<br> Others put the date in the first part of the title so it stands out in the same place on the list rather than at the end of different length titles. You can also include the state 2 digit postal code following the 4 digit year to show where my ancestor migrated. See an example: KFXW-NJ6 | |||
==== '''Research logs''' ==== | ==== '''Research logs''' ==== | ||