Add field for Find a Grave Memorial Numbers

[patsy 0]

Is there a way I can add a field so that I can enter Find-a-Grave memorial identification numbers to the individuals in my database?

[altenbernd 0]

You could create a custom tag for this and enter the identification number in the memo field.

 

Or if you use the Find A Grave information as a source, you could create a source element for the ID number or put it in the citation details.

 

Sheila Altenbernd

 

Is there a way I can add a field so that I can enter Find-a-Grave memorial identification numbers to the individuals in my database?

[patsy 0]

Thanks, Sheila! Good suggestions.

 

You could create a custom tag for this and enter the identification number in the memo field.

 

Or if you use the Find A Grave information as a source, you could create a source element for the ID number or put it in the citation details.

 

Sheila Altenbernd

 

Is there a way I can add a field so that I can enter Find-a-Grave memorial identification numbers to the individuals in my database?

[Michael Hannah 0]

I have a custom "Electronic Database" Source type for this. Its templates are:

Full Footnote: [iTAL:][TITLE][:ITAL], online at http://, cited as "[sHORT TITLE]"<.>

Short Footnote: "[sHORT TITLE]"<.>

Bibliography: [iTAL:][TITLE][:ITAL], online at <.>. [REPOSITORY]<.>

 

If I want to "lump" sources, then I don't put anything in the optional [sUBTITLE] field. But if I want to "split" sources, then I put something like "Sark, Samuel, Memorial Stone" in that field.

 

As an example of a "lumped" source entry:

Title: Find A Grave Search Site

Short Title: Find A Grave

URL: http://www.findagrave.com/

Source Supplemental Comments: Site provides cemetery information and photographs of grave memorials

Repository is myself with the Repository reference: Search results downloaded

 

An example CD would be: cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29607778 Saint John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, Plot: Section 48; Created by: Doug Lindsey, Record added: Sep 05, 2008, Find A Grave Memorial# 29607778

and the CM: Memorial stone reads: Samuel Sark, Dec. 23, 1853, Feb. 27, 1931

 

Which produces a Full Footnote of:

Find A Grave Search Site, online at http://www.findagrave.com/, cited as "Find A Grave", cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29607778 Saint John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, Plot: Section 48; Created by: Doug Lindsey, Record added: Sep 05, 2008, Find A Grave Memorial# 29607778. Memorial stone reads: Samuel Sark, Dec. 23, 1853, Feb. 27, 1931

 

A Short Footnote of:

"Find A Grave", cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29607778 Saint John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, Plot: Section 48; Created by: Doug Lindsey, Record added: Sep 05, 2008, Find A Grave Memorial# 29607778. Memorial stone reads: Samuel Sark, Dec. 23, 1853, Feb. 27, 1931

 

And gives the Bibliography entry of:

Find A Grave Search Site, online at http://www.findagrave.com/. Search results downloaded. Private holdings, Michael J. Hannah, Los Ranchos, New Mexico. Site provides cemetery information and photographs of grave memorials.

 

I will cite this source to many tags, such as Birth, Death, Burial, but will also download and link a copy of the memorial stone photo as an external exhibit to the Burial tag.

 

Hope this gives you ideas,