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From: "Beth Gay" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Higher and Lower Sources
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:23:55 -0500
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Thanks Cheri, you have given me much to think about and also solved my
problem regarding my file number. I now know how to proceed. Regarding the
"standard" citation issue; I have also followed Mill's comments on APG. The
most important issue seems to be consistency. Different publications use
different citation standards so one must also be flexible.

Beth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheri Casper" <>



> Beth - I don't know about the states you are working it, but in Missouri
and
> Kentucky each death certificate is a unique source. They are not
extracted
> from any book, but rather are unique documents in and of themselves. I
have
> never seen a death or birth certificate that contains any type of book or
> volume number on them to indicate that they came from some type of
> compilation. But all of these documents that I have worked with are at
the
> state level. Mills examples seems to indicate that those recorded at the
> local different might come from a book. If that is your situation, use a
> higher source for the book/volume and a separate lower source for each
> individual certificate. You may want to create a custom template to do
so.
>
> You can go to the source templates and change the type. Just because a
deed
> is listed as a document doesn't mean that you can't make it a document
w/in
> a source if you want. Just change that at the source template. Or keep
the
> existing one and make a custom one that is a document w/in a source.
*You*
> have the flexibility to mold this as you wish. Unlike about 5 programs
that
> I can name where you are stuck with programmatic concepts of how sources
are
> identified, GenBox gives you the ability to mold the sources, source
> templates, and "linkages" to fit your way of identifying and creating
> sources.
>
> I keep all of the default templates but have created a bunch of my own,
> either from scratch or from modifications based on the existing ones. I
> name them and put (clc) after the name in parentheses to know that it is
my
> own unique source template. I suspect that if one really wanted to get
> technical, census records are documents w/in a source also because they
are
> kept in books, but I don't treat mine that way. I treat them as
documents.
> Every book uses my custom source template as does my CEN-WEB (censuses
taken
> from web-based digital images from Ancestry.com or Genealogy.com). I
would
> say that the bulk of my sources use *my* custom templates, but it is nice
to
> keep the original intact as guidelines.
>
> Also know that Elizabeth Mills is coming out with a "big book" on sources
> that will modify all of the existing examples in her current book. One of
> the changes in store is that she is going to advise the use of recording
the
> time for e-mails. So even what we do today may need modification down the
> road. Or we may want to leave what is already in place in tact and
> implement the changes for future sources once the new book is released.
> This sourcing business is not going to be static.
>
> CheriC
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth Gay [mailto:]

> Hello list,
> To clarify my previous message. My document file numbers are a separate
> issue. I would like some place to enter these. This issue just reminded me
> of questions I had originally about the higher and lower source levels.
>
> Regarding deeds, sure I have 3 or 4 original deeds from my family and they
> would be at the document level. But the majority of them are clerk's
copies
> out of Deed Books and I don't understand why they should be treated any
> differently than another type of book, but I do not believe that the
Source
> named Book was intended for this type of entry. It would be the same with
> death certificates. Each individual death certificate has a higher source.
> Beth

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