New Albany, Floyd, Indiana, United States This report was created using a marked group and the Facts List report found in RootsMagic 7. My frustration with this ‘automatic merging’ can still be found on the Internet.īelow is a list of the individuals in my RootsMagic file that have a military fact between 18. It also say Hiram Mirick Currey and Hiram Merrick Currey as the same person - and merged them. The computer saw two James Crawfords who were born in 1758 and died in 1833 as one person - and merged them.

And, I quickly realized that the computers weren’t capable of analyzing the data and making the decisions on how to piece these files together. Yes, I’m dating myself, but this sounded FANTASTIC to this researcher trying to find her Crawford and Currey ancestors. Have genealogists from all over the world submit their gedcom files and let the computers find the connections between those files to build one tree. The concept was a fantastic ‘crowd-sourcing’ idea. I first encountered the use of this feature when Ancestry introduced One World Tree. Have you ever been tempted to use the ‘merge’ feature in your genealogy software? It can certainly be tempting to let the computer search thru a file, identify duplicates and merge them. To open the Citation Manager screen, click on the > to the right of the number of times the citation is used. RootsMagic 8 has a feature that I’m still learning to use: Citation Manager. They contain the source information but the research notes is blank and they do not have an image or PDF file attached.

Some of my citations are what I would call ‘bare bones’.

These old citations will not help another researcher locate the information.

Some of my citations are decades old and I hate to admit it, but they are sloppy.

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. Did 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.

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