Citations in Person object

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First, let me wish you all an Happy New Year!

A quick question about the citations you add to the Person (not its events, its names or its family or any other objects but to the Person object itself).

For my part, the citations that I add or not are not very clear:

  • Systematically: the first citation that allowed to create the individual
  • Randomly: when some source talk about that Person somewhere, but randomly, not all the time.

So I wonder what is your practice? Why and when do you add a citation to a Person object?

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The main reason I attach a citation directly to a person is when they are mentioned in an obituary (of a different person).

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Here is a source that I would add the citation to the Person but not to the events for the person.

Cutter, William Richard A.M. (1847-1918), “New England Families: Genealogical and Memorial”; Lewis Historical Publishing; New York 1913

This is a work created by a professional genealogist, so the information is reliable for the person. But the information does not prove the events which I still try to find the evidence as proof.

I have an extensive collection of similar sources that I have downloaded as PDF’s and attach to the source record. The above source is a four-volume set and can also be found in many local libraries as print copies. The citation would be like this example: Volume:I Page:315 (pdf:431) (VIII). The Page:315 is the book’s page number and the (pdf:431) refers to the pdf’s page number.

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I wish I could create a custom filter “Citations attached directly to People”.

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I add a citation directly to a person when a fact about their existence is mentioned. For example, when my grandmother told me that someone had two children, I create these two children and add a citation to their profile. These are mostly transcribed audio recordings. They are not entirely reliable, but at the same time, they point to the existence of these people.

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All (presumably) events you add to people are there because a source also cites them. Do you also add all the citations of all these events to the person?

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I dont add events’ citations to a person. But sometimes I add a person citations to some events (optionally)

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People custom filters

Citations/source filters >> People with the <citation>

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Yes, I have one like that, but I would like one in the Citations category view, so that I don’t have to click on each person to see the citations. It would show me only those citations which are attached directly to people.

(The only reason I wish for this is so that I can answer the question “Why and when do you add a citation to a Person object?” I mentioned one reason, people named in obituaries, but I imagine there must be other reasons I have done it. I just don’t know how to find them.)

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Please open your own post and explain what you want because it’s not clear at all.

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I find it rare that a given source/citation mentions only exactly one fact about a Person’s life and death (e.g., Birth and death certificates, census and immigration records, draft cards, all contain multiple facts). I tend to put such comprehensive records into a Person’s Source Citations. This avoids the extra work of attaching them to multiple locations and makes it quite convenient to review them together.

I put marriage documents into the Family Source Citations.

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My approach is to use only the Person’s Source Citation consistently. For example, if I find a marriage record, I assign the same Citation to each Person listed in it. To avoid redundancy, I do not link the Citation directly to the marriage Event. Instead, the Event associated with the Citation can be inferred from its description.
This method makes it easier for me to find a complete list of the Citations linked to a particular Person.

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