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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Footnotes/Endnotes
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 13:48:48 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20001202004500.24540.qmail@web5105.mail.yahoo.com>


Betty Mankin wrote:
>Lee, regarding my previous message on
>footnotes/endnotes.
>
>My source type in this particular case is "Marriage
>(Church-certificate)" and I have the following as the
>output form on the full footnote.
>
>[RECORD TYPE], [SPOUSES' NAMES]<, [DATE]>, photocopy
>in <[REPOSITORY ADDRESS]> [Record Number]
>
>When I check preview it prints as follows-----
>Marriage License, Daisy Stamps, John H. Porter,
>November 22, 1899, photocopy in Mankin Family Records,
> PDN #P002.
>
>Now, when I print a report, such as individual detail
>for example, under publication tools I have footnotes
>checked. In the footnotes it prints as follows:
>Marriage License, Daisy Stamps, John H. Porter,
>November 22, 1899, photocopy in PDN #P002. It does
>not print "Mankin Family Records." I use this same
>type of format --that is, copy in Mankin Family
>Records, PDN XXXX--in most all my sources since I try
>to have some type of copy on hand for all my sources.
>My question is why does the full footnote show in the
>preview on the source output screen but it does not
>carry forward to a printed report? I've been trying to
>work on my sources and get them to read the way I want
>in the source output preview but if it is not going to
>transfer to print that way, what"s up???

As someone else may have noted, is this citation that you cite based on the
Full Footnote or the Short Footnote. The Short Footnote rarely has the
Repository information in it. Also if the Source is a generic one, then it
may be best to enter your PDN information in the Citation Detail.

Hope this helps -

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