Similar questions have been asked before, but mine may be unique - so please give me some recommendations.
I’ve been researching for 30 years - mostly used PAF back in the day, put everything in notes as far as sourcing information although not up to Evidence Explained standards. I’ve now got V9 of RootsMagic and finally am getting around to updating the information without everything remaining online or in my computer folders.
As you know, importing a source from FamilySearch doesn’t come over formatted to a preferred template. ( I would like to start fresh in the sources so that it is lumped, easier to find, attach multiple citations etc, to the master source, i.e follow Busby’s recommendations).
I have over 79 sources in FamilySearch on one of my family lines. Is there an easier way to do this versus typing each individual item as a new source or citation? I can’t stand the thought of every source in my new RootsMagic file to be listed without some logic to it (names of folks, versus Census, 1850, Morgan County AL etc).
I hope my question is clear enough and I’m almost of afraid of what the answer may be.
The source and citation names are customizable and not used in the citation footnote. You can organize what you have existing anyway you wish. If you want to reorganize and change the source templates that is done one at a time. Not everything has to be done at once. I usually put an asterisks at the end of the source name so I can tell which ones are using the source templates I want.
Thanks, fully understand everything is customizable. The question is easiest way to take the 79 records and create sources in RM (the right way). If its one by one, then so be it.
I think the answer is that if you want your sources and citations in RM to look a certain way, then the only way to do it is to do it yourself. That’s the hard way, but I think it’s the only way if you want to control the way the sources and citations look.
If you want to do it the easy way and import the sources, they will look they way they want to look and not the way you want them to look. It doesn’t really matter if you are importing from FamilySearch or from Ancestry or from GEDCOM.
Renee is correct that the Source Names and Citation Names in RM do not appear in the actual footnote/endnote sentences. You can adjust them after an import to look exactly how you want them to look. But as far as the overall structure of your sources and citations, as far as what is in the content of the footnote/endnote sentences, and as far as how media files are named and stored and organized, I think it’s actually harder to do the “easy” import of sources and citations and then adjust them after the fact than it is to enter them manually in the first place. I’m a sample size of 1 and your mileage may vary.
I suggest you play with a few sources and citations and their media in a small test database. Try it by importing and adjusting after the import. Try it by doing it manually in the first place. See which way works better for your. Be sure you include media in your test.
