Hey Mardee
No, the clippings themselves all have meaningful titles. I’ll clarify, by going through a new clipping that’s both relevant to my research and a useful demo for you
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When you do the initial clipping, you can put in the “Clip Title” and Tags. I do this as you’d expect, giving it a descriptive title, tagging it (usually with surnames) and click the Save button. Here’s what that looks like in “My Clippings” on Newspapers.
After the initial clipping action, Newspapers then displays a second dialog with “Share” and “Save to Ancestry” buttons. If you click the Save to Ancestry option, it pops up a window asking who to save it to. I fill that out with the main person and save it. That save operation connects it to Ancestry as a source for that person. But it doesn’t create a Fact entry yet.
The save operation proceeds to a second dialog titled “Add a corresponding fact”. This is where I change things around. By default, that dialog box picks up the same title that I gave the newspaper clipping.
Dialog at start of “Save to Ancestry”:
I change it at this time to “Newspaper item”. Then, further down on that dialog box, I enter all the relevant information into the field that says “Enter an optional description”.
Dialog after modification and before “Save”:
When I click that dialog box’s save button, it creates the new “Newspaper item” fact on the person’s profile.
Resulting Fact entry on Ancestry:
At the initiation of a RootsMagic TreeShare, the new Fact comes across like this:
And the resulting entry in RootsMagic looks like this:
Side note … for my “Newspaper item” custom fact type, I follow a standardized format I’ve developed. Here’s a screenshot of the section of my standards documentation on it.