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FTM 2012 - question about an icon

Posted: 4 Aug 2013 11:56AM GMT
Classification: Query
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Re: FTM 2012 - question about an icon

Posted: 4 Aug 2013 2:53PM GMT
Classification: Query
The pencil refers to notes for that fact. On the right side of the person page where you make your data inputs you will see fact sources, media, and notes tabs. Click on the note tab for any source and type something. You will than see a 1 appear under the pencil for that fact.

Re: FTM 2012 - question about an icon

Posted: 4 Aug 2013 3:03PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 5 Aug 2013 7:10PM GMT

You said: "Click on the note tab for any SOURCE and type something."

I think you meant to say: "Click on the note tab for any FACT and type something."

Text in a FACT Note will show a 1 in the "pencil" column. It can also be included in a Genealogy (Register) Report.

Text in a SOURCE CITATION Note will not show anywhere, in any other view or report that I know of. A SOURCE CITATION note is a "hidden" note.

I suggest not putting stuff in a SOURCE CITATION note for that reason. I suggest you use 1) the Fact note or 2) even putting text into Notepad and attach as a media instead. Or, 3) if very brief, into the SOURCE CITATION TEXT. Or, a final option, is to put the text into the Person Notes, under an appropriate hedaing.

An advantage to putting the source textual info in a Notepad file and attaching as a media file is that it is instantly available when you use that textual info as a source for other people. For example, an obituary in a Notepad file that names the parents, wife, children and grandchildren of a person is instantly available in any othese person's pages if it attached to a source citation as media. You have to go back and find the deceased person if it is put in as a Fact Note. But, the Fact Note can be printed in a Genealogy Register Report, a Source Citation Media item can't be printed.

So, I put obitary text in both places: a Fact Note and a Notepad file attached to a Source Citation. Ditto biographies that include genealogical info.

Re: FTM 2012 - question about an icon

Posted: 5 Aug 2013 2:29PM GMT
Classification: Query
You are correct. I did mistype source for fact.
Thank you.
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