bordercot196@btinternet.com

Jeff, Thanks for the reply. It looks as though I'm going to be a small group lumper ! This seems to be a better way to get a handle on the master source list and keep the number of entries to a sensible level.

There are 2 schools of thought. Lumpers and Splitters.

 

Lumpers will have a small number of sources. E.G a source for each of the census Returns 1841, 1851 etc. some may lump together to as large a group as possible but others may lump in smaller groups. e.g. 1841 census Essex, 1841 census Durham, 1841 census Scotland.

The same will go for other records.

 

Splitters will have an individual source for each location of information. so a census will be split right down to the individual census Record E.g. 1841 census 4 High Street, Chelmsford Essex HO107/1234/56/78.

 

Which you are is a matter of personal preference. Do you want lots of sources or not?

You sound like you would be a lumper from your comment.

My preference is a lumper. So I have a source for each census, one for birth certificates, marriage certificates etc.

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I am a new user to the UK Silver Edition and am trying to understand sources. Although I feel I understand them some confusion exists. For example I have about 600 people in my file. Each one of these can have a source for birth, marriage and death/burial information as well as 1841/51/61/71/81/91 census information. For each of these entries I could add a source making a Master Source list of probably over 3,000 entries, this can't be right !

Is the intention to add a single source such as a particular church baptism register and then call up this source every time a baptism for that church is entered ? Same goes for the census, just call up one source for the 1851 say, and then use this one source for every 1851 entry ?

Thanks for that Les, it works fine. I don't know how I didn't figure that out for myself !

I've another query that you might know the answer to. Is there a global way of altering tag names ? i.e. I want to change "christning" to "baptism". I can do it on an individual person basis but it is slow going. I've tried the help menu but can't find an answer.

How are you trying to close it? If by the x you will lose changes. To retain changes try clicking on the "OK" at the botom of the Tag Entry Screen.

 

Les

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I've just started to use TMG (UK Silver Edition) and after importing a GEDCOM file from another program I find that I cannot edit the memo field in tag boxes. This information has been imported from the old program and when I try to delete some information it appears to be deleted in the tag box memo field but if I then close the tag box and reopen it the original informationis there and the deletions have had no effect. How do you edit memo fields in tag boxes ?