I am happy to see Russ Worthington back in genealogy and FTM action after the Hurricane Sandy problems - he posted a very helpful blog today about "Citing As You Go - What About Email?" on his Family Tree Maker User blog.
I thought it might be interesting to see how a source citation crafted by the RootsMagic 5 source template might look. There are three source templates for E-mail messages in RootsMagic 5:
* E-mail message
Private, Personal-E-Mail, writer as lead element
Ref: [E!, p 80]
* E-mail, personal, privately held, by writer
Private Holdings,
Personal E-Mail; writer as lead element; see also Correspondence,
personal
Ref: [EE, p 154-155 (Ref: QC-3, p 113)]
* E-mail, personal, privately held, filed by collection
Private
Holdings, Personal-E-Mail, collection as lead element in bibliography; see also
Correspondence, personal
Ref: [EE, QC-3, p 113]
Because my email was a short series, I chose the second source template listed above.
Here is the Source Template screen for one email:
The "Master Source" fields are:
* Sender
* Writer's location
* Writer's e-contact
* Item type
* Recipient
* Researcher
* Contact data
* Street address
* City address
* Provenance
The "Source Details" fields are:
* Subject line
* Record date
* File
* Research series
* Collection
* Date held
I entered the information that I thought was appropriate, and you can see the Footmnote, Short Footnote and Bibliography citations created using this source template in the screen above. The Footnote is:
xxxxx Dill, San Diego, Calif., [e-mail for private use], to Randy
Seaver, e-mail, 1 May 2012, "Albert Freeman Dill," Local Folders: Surnames:
Dill-Horton-Eastham; privately held by Randy Seaver, [e-mail & address for private use], Chula Vista CA
91911, 2012.
The "Master Source" information is in red above, and the "Source Details" in blue.
I also added the text of the email to the Marriage Fact Note for Albert Freeman Dill:
This was instructive and interesting. The source templates make this pretty easy.
I wasn't sure what to put into the "File" line in the Source Details - I chose my email local folder name. If I had saved the email to my computer file system, I would have put the file folder name and file name. If I had printed the email and put it in a paper file folder or surname notebook, I would have added that to the "Research series" or "Collection" fields.
The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/11/email-source-citation-in-rootsmagic-5.html
Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver
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