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When Elizabeth Shown Mills wrote her book Evidence: Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian, her recommended format for birth registrations would result in each birth record being one TMG Source, and the TMG v. 7 template is consistent with this approach. In her newer book, Evidence Explained, on page 458 (2nd ed.) she recommends that birth registrations be set up so that the birth records held at one office would be a Source and the specific information for a particular birth record (name of child, date, book and page or certificate number) would be placed in a Citation Detail instead. If one enters each birth certificate as a single Source, the Source list could become quite long just with birth records. Has anyone set up Source Elements, etc. to be consistent with this way of entering birth records? If so, how did you do so?

Thanks for the information. I had not known of John Cardinal's TMG Utility. Could you please provide a little clarification? Do you copy the tag within TMG or within the Utility program? Thanks, Emily

Is there a way to add several research tasks at once? I.e. either adding a group of research tasks to one person, or adding one research task to a group of persons? I am finding it tedious to add research tasks one at a time. Also, why does one have to add a new source to the master source list before that source can be used in a research task? Why can't you add a new source to the master source list in the process of creating a research task? If I start to add a research task and want to link it to a new source, I cannot just click on the binoculars next to source in the add research task screen. If I do so, I discover that "add" is not an option at this point. I have to go to tools, master source list, add the source via that route, then go back to linking the source to the research task. Is there a reason that one cannot add a new source while adding a research task or am I doing something wrong?

I have just started using TMG and would like to see if I understand how a document, such as a birth certificate, should be entered. I can see how one could enter this sort of information in more than one way and I would like to be consistent from the start. Is each individual birth certificate a source? If so, what goes into the citation detail field? There is only one date field. How do I state that the child was born on a given date, but the record was filed a few days later, and the certified document was issued much later? If the certificate has a stamped number, a book number, and a page number, do I put all of these into the number field? Is there an easier way to link one citation to several events (child's date and place of birth, mother, father, mother's place of birth, father's place of birth, names of child and parents, etc.) other than adding a new citation for each event, selecting the source, and using F3 to fill in the detail, memo and reference fields one at a time? Thanks!