![]() Now that I’m working with the preview copy of RootsMagic 8, I am spending a lot of time working with citations. For those modifications, I often turn to another ‘tool’ - my copy of Evidence Explained. I usually copy and modify an existing template. The ‘tool’ I use the most often is Source Templates in my RootsMagic software. I even have ‘tools’ to help me with creating those citations. Now, that I’m retired, I’m working with footnotes on an almost daily basis. When a person is highlighted on the pedigree view, family view or any of the other ways to view people, their information is found to left side of the screen.ĭid you create very many footnotes prior to your work as a genealogist or family historian? Even though I worked with lots of data and even helped students create footnotes, creating footnotes was not one of my job tasks. To view the sentences, I must open the ‘EDIT’ window for an individual. Fortunately, with sentences, there doesn’t seem to be much of a learning curve. ![]() I am currently previewing RootsMagic 8 and learning how to use the new features of this software. I am still learning how to customize those sentences, especially for shared facts. Like TMG, RootsMagic has standard sentences with the ability to customize them. When I transferred my data to RootsMagic, I elected to have that ‘memo’ information placed in the NOTE field of RootsMagic. Since one could have more than one memo field, it was possible to build fairly complicated sentences. The Master Genealogist (TMG) used memo fields in their sentences. I’m guessing this goes back to my years using The Master Genealogist and John Cardinal’s Second Site to create a web site. In case you haven’t figured it out, I like to use a narrative report when working with an individual in my family tree. Studying the source in RM8 shows that 4 images are attached to the source (the PDF file and 3 jpeg images of the pages from the PDF file) and that a transcription is part of the source. Once completed for the Emeline Mentzer Bible, the RM7 file was closed and then imported into RM8 to see if this process improved the source in terms of the media, transcription and citations. Enter their name and the event in the citation details for the source.Attach new source to the appropriate facts.Make a copy of the Bible source (or create a new one).I think the quickest way to get these sources corrected will be to start over. To ‘clean up’ this mess, I need to work in RootsMagic 7 and not in RootsMagic 8. Several of the citations have 4 or 5 media files attached - and these are images from a different Bible. Most of these citations have no media attached, when they all should have 1 PDF file attached. Not only that, but it looks like I have multiple sources for two of the Bibles and no source for the Pauline Briles Bible. ![]() Not only does it get confusing working with the sourcing of these Bibles, but it appears that I have at times attached the images or PDF files to the wrong Bible. However, when it comes to the death dates, I only find some of them in the Bible records kept by Pauline Mentzer Briles. Thus, when I’m documenting the birth information for my grandmother’s siblings, I have three different Bible records containing that information: the Emeline Mentzer Bible and the two Charles Mentzer Bibles. Pauline Mentzer Briles Bible – transcription matches transcription of Charles Mentzer Bible – not sure this is a separate Bible.Charles Mentzer Bible – in possession of my 1st cousin – transcription indicates this Bible was given to Charles Mentzer by his daughter Pauline.Charles Mentzer Bible – Bible in my possession but in very poor condition.Family Bible of Emeline Minnick Mentzer (photocopy obtained from descendant).I have one in my possession, a photocopy of one and transcriptions of the other two. Are you blessed with a family Bible in your genealogy collection? Are you lucky enough to have several family Bibles? I’ve had the good fortune to have had access to several family Bibles including Crawford, Currey, Mentzer and Wells.Īs I’ve been going thru the facts and sources I have for my grandmother’s Mentzer siblings, I’ve become confused about the Bibles.
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