As it stands now, I find managing sources to be a bit unwieldy. My sources list is rather long, but I have a bunch of sources that are similar enough to each other that it might make sense to have them together inside a user-defined collapsible/expandable group, similar to how places are handled rig…

Something like this? [image] Sources and Citations: some thoughts Ideas Similar to the Place Enclosed By tab, could Sources do something along the same lines. Source A: Periodical Title Source A1: Volume 1 Source A2: Volume 2 etc. The sub sources could only be enclos…

I don’t know what your source titles are like. For me, I use Ancestry, Find My Past and Family Search the most. I use the exact same title as they have on their sites. Usually they end in a year range. I then can enter the last 7 character eg 38-1947 in the search bar to find the source when recordi…

Pretty much exactly! I’m surprised I didn’t find this when I was looking to make sure I wasn’t posting something that had already been suggested lol

That’s about what I do as well, I guess I’m just a bit picky about wanting more granular options for organization is all.

[image] Davesellers: So, since I’m “searching” to find the high level source title all the time. I don’t see the need for your suggestion, but that is me. FYI I have 260 Source titles and over 17,000 citations. In one of my projects, I have more than 5000 newspaper sources and growing and whe…

Grouping sources for organization

Ideas

DaveSch December 27, 2023, 11:39am 2

Something like this?

Topic		Replies	Views
Name field for sources Ideas	10	873	May 7, 2020
Sources and Citations: some thoughts Ideas	72	3775	August 13, 2024
Parts of sources Genealogy	11	1794	December 21, 2020
Source vs Repository Genealogy	29	1444	July 3, 2025
Question about source vs. citation (marriage, birth certificates, etc.) Genealogy	9	1844	July 15, 2022

Grouping sources for organization

Related topics