Shannon M. Thomas | Mostly Genealogy

On Saturday Randy Seaver posted Saturday Night Genealogy Fun at his Genea-Musings blog.  Randy's mission was as follows:        1)  Have you done a good job of citing your sources in your genealogy management program or online family tree?  How are you doing?  How many source citations do you have, and how many people are in your tree?  What is the sources to persons ratio?        2)  Which master source (e.g., 1900 U.S. census, Find A Grave, specific book, etc.) do you have the most citations for?  How many?  How did you figure this out?        3)  Tell us in your own blog post, in comments to this post, or on Facebook or Google+ in a post.  Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your post on this blog post. In Legacy I did a Source Citation Report. Legacy Source Citation Report screen. It took a little bit of time going through my report...thankfully it wa...

I have been following Russ Worthington's posts at Family Tree Maker User  about citing Ancestry.com Member Trees in FTM and I found a way to do the same in Legacy.  A way that works for me at least. I chose to add a generic source and then from the drop down menu Online database. The Source List Name is the name that you see in your source list for easy retrieval.  I put **USE THIS ONE** to make it stand out until I get the others cleared out. I left the fields for author last name, author given name, author suffix, date and agency/creator blank to get the results that I wanted. Click save and move to the detail section. In the item of interest field I put the name of the Member Tree in quotation marks, family tree by member name, profile for with birth and death information in parenthesis. My citation now look like: Footnote/Endnote Citation: "Public Member Tree," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 Apr 2014), "davis /ri...

William Andrew Siegfreid is my 2nd great grandfather.  He is the son of William Henry and Eve Greenzwig Siegfried. William was born 21 October 1857 in Millport, Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon county, Pennsylvania and he died on 16 February 1927 in Sugarloaf Township, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. William married Emma Lydia Shellhammer in 1880.  They had the following children: Otto Siegfried William Edger Siegfried Arthur Siegfried -- I'm not sure if this is really another child or if he is Archibald...more things for my to do list! Archibald (Archie) Siegfried Cassia Siegfried Charles Crawford Siegfried Darwin Wesley Seigfreid (my great grandfather) Gertrude Siegfried Harry Siegfried Harty Titus Siegfried Hattie Siegfried Dorothy Siegfried County Historical Maps of Pennsylvania  (Harrisburg, Pa.: Archives Publishing Company of Pennsylvania, Incorporated, (donated) 1950). Digital version at  FamilySearch Books Online  - free. I ...