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

[Ken W. <kg...@lu...>]

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.

-- 
Ken Walker
Qualicum Beach, BC