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NOTES in FTM 2012

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Re: NOTES in FTM 2012

Posted: 31 Jan 2014 8:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 31 Jan 2014 8:54AM GMT
Well, we agree that we disagree! Ha...

I attach another example. Note the reference in the sketch to an excerpt from John Howell's will that left legacies to children. The footnote 55 only shows:

55 WYNSO, Liber 7, 568: (II. 36-37)

Note the economy of space achieved by brevity and abbreviations. This is what I hate about ancestry source citations - nothing is abbreviated, things are repeated, and citations are unnecessarily way too long.

At any rate, this illustrates putting the citation text into the sketch of the subject. You could either construct the sketch in the Person note, or the Research Note, or a FACT Note. You could also transcribe the WHOLE will and put that into a Notepad file and attach to a citation (where it won't show in any report) or make a separate fact for Will and put the transcription for the whole will into that Fact Note and mark it Private - meaning the whole will wouldn't be printed. Then copy and paste the pertinent excerpts you want to put in the person's sketch whereever you want it to show in the report.

The bottom line is that, in my opinion, the source footnote should only contain the info for the reader to find the info - not a transcript of the source itself - that info should be as brief and abbreviated as possible - and only notes that are an "aside" or a comment about the source, are made.

See the attached for the example of a will with footnote 55. This is from a book, not a journal: A Genealogy of the Family of Richard Howell..", compiled by Thomas H Donnelly.

BTW, I would be interested to know if these publishing houses and journals use their own genealogy software to construct these books, or if they have people who take the genealogist's work from some generic genealogy software and put it into a Word Processing document. Note also the use of opcit and id and those kinds of shortcuts referring to previous footnotes - none of which FTM can do and which would have be achievable before (and if) FTM were to move to page-by-page footnotes.
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FamilyHeadHun... 30 Jan 2014 11:11PM GMT 
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FamilyHeadHun... 31 Jan 2014 4:49AM GMT 
barbarajfn 31 Jan 2014 7:29AM GMT 
kj_norway 31 Jan 2014 1:30PM GMT 
FamilyHeadHun... 31 Jan 2014 2:06PM GMT 
silverfox3280 31 Jan 2014 2:36PM GMT 
kj_norway 31 Jan 2014 3:23PM GMT 
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