Re: Indirect citiations in GEDCOM sources

On Jul 24, 5:12 pm, Lars Eighner <use...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lacking the means to obtain most kinds of direct sources (for example,
fiche on CD from the Texas Department of Health) I nonetheless have
some indirect sources, such as transcriptions by various persons available
at various (mostly web) repositories.

I am a little uncertain about how to handle this in GEDCOM 5.5.

What I suppose would be correct would be to make a source record for the
material from the originator (i.e.  the TDH fiche which I don't have but
know how to specify), then make a source record for the indirect source
linked by a note/sour xref, then make source citations to the indirect
source (the text of which I do have).

If this is making any sense, does it seem like the right way to do it?

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  Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/>                 September 5806, 1993
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Only use as a source a document that you have actually seen- in this
case the transcript.
You could add a source note detailing the source of your source.
"Source: transctipt of TDH records made by John Doe dated DD MMM YYYY
citing TDH microfiche Roll# xxx, frams #xxx"
.

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