Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Peeking at Legacy Family Tree 7.5 Source Citations in the GEDCOM File - Post 1

Following up on my post Peeking at Family Tree Maker 2011 Source Citations in the GEDCOM File - Post 1 from yesterday, reader David B. created the same source citation in Legacy Family Tree 7.5 and added it in a comment to the post.

I did a similar task today in Legacy Family Tree 7.5 and exported it in a small GEDCOM file for comparison to the Family Tree Maker 2011 example.

For the Isaac Seaver Birth Fact, I used the source data that came across in an earlier GEDCOM file of my entire database, which did not use the Legacy Source Creation tool.  Then I created a second source citation using the Legacy SourceWriter.

Here is the source template screen for the Birth Fact that came across from FTM 2011, but edited to select "Book" for the Source Type (a Legacy feature), and to remove the word "Name:" from the publication information (which came across from the FTM 2011 GEDCOM file):



The Footnote/End Note Citation, including the Source Detail, is:

Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass.: F.P. Rice, 1908), Page 83.

The Subsequent Citation is exactly the same.

To create the same source in the Legacy SourceWriter, I used the template for Books - Book, Authored - Authored by an agency - Basic format:



I added the data to the appropriate fields in this template, including in the Repository tab.  I added a shorthand source title - "Westminster VRs" for this source so I can easily find it in the master source index.  Here is the screen for the results:



The resulting Source Citations are:

Footnote/Endnote Citation:Systematic History Fund, Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass.: F.P. Rice, 1908), Page 83.
Subsequent Citation:
Systematic History Fund, Page 83. What about the GEDCOM file - what do these two source citations look like?  Here are the three sections (Fact data, SOURce data and REPOsitory data):

1)  Fact data:

0 @I33927@ INDI
1 NAME Isaac /Seaver/
2 GIVN Isaac
2 SURN Seaver
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 16 Oct 1823
2 PLAC Westminster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
2 SOUR @S559@
3 PAGE Page 83
3 QUAY 3
2 SOUR @S673@
3 PAGE Page 83.
3 QUAY 3


2)  SOURce data:

0 @S559@ SOUR
1 MEDI Book
1 ABBR Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849
1 TITL Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End o
2 CONC f the Year 1849
1 AUTH Systematic History Fund
1 PUBL Worcester, Mass.: F.P. Rice, 1908
1 REPO @R41@
1 _ITALIC Y
1 _PAREN Y
0 @S673@ SOUR
1 ABBR Westminster VRs
1 TITL Vital Records of Westminster, Massachusetts, to the End o
2 CONC f the Year 1849
1 AUTH Systematic History Fund
1 PUBL Worcester, Mass.: F.P. Rice, 1908.
1 REPO @R41@
1 _ITALIC Y
1 _PAREN Y


3)  REPOsitory data:

0 @R41@ REPO
1 NAME New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts
1 ADDR
2 _NAME New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts

Some observations and comments:

*  In the Fact data, the first source for the Fact is denoted as S559, and the second source denoted S673 and is within the QUAY tags (what does that mean?).

*  Legacy has separated the Person's name into GIVeN name and SURName tags.

*  In the SOURce section for the first citation, there is a MEDIa tag for "Book."  In the second source citation, which used a Book Template, there is no MEDIa tag line.  I wonder why there isn't?

*  There are no word or phrase duplications, or extraneous words, added to the GEDCOM tag fields in the SOURce lines. 

*  The only difference between the two SOURce sections in the GEDCOM are the ABBReviations (which I intentionally changed), the MEDIa tag in the first citation that is not in the second citation, and there is a period at the end of the PUBLication tag line for the second citation. 

*  Both SOURce tag sections have a 1_ITALIC Y line and a 1_PAREN Y line - I assume that means put the TITLe in italics and the PUBLication section in parentheses.

*  The REPOsitory tag section added the Repository name to the ADDRess tag field.  There is also a 2 _NAME line for some reason.

It looks to me that, at least for this particular source type, that Legacy Family Tree 7.5 will create a GEDCOM file that has little or no extraneous information included, and has some formatting (italics and parentheses) in the right places.  That is really good news for me!

I will do the same study for several more citation types in Legacy Family Tree 7.5, and then will do a similar set of studies in RootsMagic 4.

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