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    General Source Numbers

    I'm confused about lots of things in Reunion 10 and am slowly working my way through 'My Family File' that I imported via GEDCOM from Legacy.

    I note that the help files for 'General Source' indicates that they show up as numbers adjacent to a person in the family view. This apparently means only those Sources marked as 'General Source' under 'name' - since by experimentation, the numbers do not show up by the persons name when sources are added to 'events', "Facts', 'Notes'.

    I have lots of 'General Source' items that did not get added to the persons when I imported the GEDCOM, so do I have to re-visit each person to ensure that the 'General Source' button is selected under the 'name' to be seen adjacent to the person in the Family View? This sort of infers that I would need to re-visit each source (about 1100) and each person in file (25,000+) and then 'mark' those using the source number to enable the source number to appear adjacent to their name - Or am I reading too much into this feature and/or is there a recommended/better method to do what I would like?

    Bob
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    Re: General Source Numbers

    You're misunderstanding what a General Source is.

    From the manual

    In many cases, all the data for a person will be derived from a single source. Rather than clutter your data and reports with source citations in each and every field, you can enter a single source for a person and designate it as a general source. If a source is cited as a general source, it simply means that the source record applies to all information recorded for a person.

    General sources apply only to people; they do not apply to marriage, marital status, family events, or family notes.
    So you can NOT put a general source specifically against any single event or fact or note- it by definition applies to ALL information about a person.

    Roger
    Roger Moffat
    http://lisaandroger.com/genealogy/
    http://genealogy.clanmoffat.org/

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      Re: General Source Numbers

      You are right Roger - I believe I misunderstood the intent of the general source. I notice the data I was concerned about was imported as 'events' complete with the source data that points to the scanned document I have in my 'Docs' file. I am still cleaning up the source data brought over in the GEDCOM file and was concerned that the data representing a source was not tied to a persons information - but I see that the information is there.

      I guess I have to start thinking in Reunion now . :-)

      Thanks for the advice.

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