GEDCOM into Reunion

[Gail S]

I imported a Ancestry.com GEDCOM file into a new family file in Reunion 13. There are 327 people and over 1100 sources. Every time for example Find A Grave was a source it became a new source number even if there was no added detail. Is there an easy(?) way to consolidate sources? I printed a list of Sources and also the Source Usage list. On the Source Usage list the first 110 sources said “source not used”. That seems very odd. Anyone else experience these problems from Ancestry to Reunion?

[Kalico]

I'm surprised that there were no answers to this, but I'm going to jump in anyway because I have a problem along the same line and I'm betting that this awesome community has the answers! I am trying to clean up sources following an import, and I see a very similar situation to what Gail S encountered. Maybe there is another thread I'm not seeing, so please redirect me if that's the case.

I used FTM as the import bridge, so I have multimedia source files as well as plain text. all 2,016 sources came over as "Free Form" templates, and a lot of them seem quite specific to the individual....i.e., there are free form notes that give the person's name and vitals. Is this normal? It seems like it would make a lot more sense to have a source that is non-personalized and then that one source is attached to all the people who match it. Because...I don't want to make a book or report with source citations that read like individual person entries.

So how did I end up here, and what do I do about it?

PS I do think I understand at least part of the reason for what I'm seeing. There are 90 entries for the 1930 census, afaict it's one for each person who was found in the 1930 census. In the cases where there's an image, that's pretty cool, because I have the image of the page that person appears on. But I guess in my mind, I was picturing having the image associated with the person, not the source.

To be clear, I can understand why you have to have a slightly different citation for each person -- the page they are found on in the census is going to be different in each case. But it seems like there must be an easier way to do this than having it all of this data sort of dumped into a free form template and unorganized.

Am I thinking about it all wrong?