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Comment by Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore on September 16, 2009 at 8:00am: Hi Bill!! Bless your heart for answering all my concerns: I love that the Master Source changes the old citations as well. The Repositories I will play with! ;)
now: RE_Chronological Order. The first thing to check is the sort date, which controls the order in which the facts appear. All the facts with a valid sort date sort first.
--------------I checked help on the software and it does not have a working help assist within the software! So, can you tell me where I find the area to change the Sort Date? I noticed other printouts are the same way.

I have printed out your answers for a reference until i 'get' it! :) Thanks again! Brenda

Comment by Bill Bienia on September 16, 2009 at 7:11am: Brenda,
RE: Source: THere are two parts to a source in RootsMagic, the Master Source and the Source Details or Citations Details.If you change the Master Source portion, it changes for all citations - past, present and future - using this source. If you change the Details portion, that changes for only current citation.

RE: Repository. Repositories are associated with the master Source. In ver. 3, click Lists, Source List, highlight a source, then click Edit, then select the repository tab. Select "Edit Repository" to add or edit the repository details, or "Select repository from list" to reuse an already entered repository. Unfortunately, there is no way to add a repository to multiple sources.

RE: Chronological Order. The first thing to check is the sort date, which controls the order in which the facts appear. All the facts with a valid sort date sort first. Those without a sort date follow in generally the order they were entered, but this is not guaranteed. If you don't have a valid date, you can still enter a date into the blank sort date field. You can even add a sort date if there is not date in the date field, which places the fact or event in the proper order.

Comment by Karen Struve on September 15, 2009 at 2:04pm: I had the pleasure of meeting Bruce Buzbee this past weekend in Spokane at the Washington State Genealogy Conference. He was a delight to listen to and has inspired me to utilize more features in RootsMagic Ver. 4. He was especially helpful in demonstrating the sourcing features in his program. If his book is anything like the man in person it should be a great asset. I am ordering a copy today.

Comment by Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore on September 15, 2009 at 1:51pm: Oh.. Vers 3: I have one file (that I am aware of) that will not put things in chronological order. it does birth 1850; census 1860-1870-1915-1920-1925-1930 then death 1943; obit 1943; burial 1943; - then marriage 1870 and then.. it starts with the older census ie; 1880-1900-1905-1910... NOW.. why are the 2nd batch of census in the right order. This is looking at a printout of a Family Group Sheet... If you understand this.. great! ;) got an answer? ;)

Comment by Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore on September 15, 2009 at 12:38pm: If you have a database (not mine) Version 3... there are a few thousand people. I want to create a repository for the sources. What is the easiest way to do this. I don't have a ves. 3 book just vers 4 - thanks

Comment by Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore on September 15, 2009 at 12:36pm: This seems like a silly question but I have been curious... say you have a source you have used alot. You then edit that source. I know the answer.. ;) but does it change previous uses of that source or just future ones? Back with another in a few~

Comment by Tamura Jones on September 15, 2009 at 12:32pm: Bernard that seems to be a general question about sourcing, and to me, the answer seems that you can store and keep track of emails however you like, but that the email remains the source of the information.
You may want to join Mark Tucker's Genealogical Proof Standard group to discuss this further.

Comment by Bernard Doddema, Jr. on September 15, 2009 at 10:55am: Hopefully someone can help me with this. Normally when I receive a genealogy related email, I copy it to my forum (making sure to say it's from an email) and use the forum as the source. I only do it for simplicity sake as it's easier to keep track of the forum than emails.

My question: Is it okay to do this? If not, please explain something that would work better.

Thanks.

Comment by Bruce Buzbee on August 13, 2009 at 7:48pm: Laurence: That is the address verification the credit card processor does. If you want to send an email to orders@rootsmagic.com (so that we would then have your email) I can help you out with this.

Karen: You can use color coding in RootsMagic (Tools > Color code people) and color code the different lines. Then when you print the wall chart you can tell it to use the color coding.

Susan: Do Reports > Lists > Fact List. There are a bunch of options, one being to print a list of facts without sources.

Comment by Susan Adamson Fritz on August 13, 2009 at 11:04am: I cannot find how to access/find the Fact Without Source report...can anyone help me? I love the concept!