Re: [Gramps-users] New user with questions about recording sources

[doug <do...@o2...>]

Ken Walker wrote:
> I have just got started with genealogy and Gramps by taking over the
> data my late father collected in a book 20 years ago.  I was quite
> surprised that by the time I had entered the data he collected, there
> were over 700 people in it.  So far all of the data I have is based on
> the work he did.  From here I intend to add data collected from other
> sources.  Mindful of the importance of being able, later, to identify
> the source of each piece of data, I am not quite sure how to proceed
> from here.
> 
> Does it make sense at this point to try to add a source reference
> referring to my fathers book so that later, after data is entered from
> other sources, the source of each bit of data can be identified?  Is
> there a way to add the same source note to every event/person in the
> database at this point without having to do it one at a time?  Is that a
> good idea?
> 
> Or would it make sense to keep this as a separate family file and create
> a separate file for information for other sources.  That seems to me to
> be cumbersome or maybe even not workable since it would deal with mostly
> the same people.
> 
> I have tried to get a sense of how to deal with this from the
> documents.  Maybe when I get to know my way around I will see that I
> could have found these answers, so I hope I am not asking a question
> that is already answered.
> 
I'd be inclined to treat your father's book as a repository; then you 
can record where the physical object is kept, etc.

The book will also be a source, or perhaps several sources, eg. 
'father's book text','family documents' inserted in the book, 'family 
photos' included in the book, etc. All these sources will have the same 
'father's book' repository.
The various bits of data will have one or more of these sources.

I don't think there's any way to add a source to a whole batch of data 
at once; however once you've defined a source you can copy it to the 
clipboard. Then adding it to a lot of data, one at a time is much less 
tedious.

Doug