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How to Hide Stuff in TMG

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y Prefix in text

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y From reports and chartsy On the screen

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y SourceCategories in TMG follow one of two standards:y Evidence by Elizabeth Shown Mills

y Cite Your Sources by Richard S. Lackey

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Or one of your own making Custom (OK, threestandards)

y Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills (2008)

y Archives fact sheetsy

State Records NSW Archives in Brief No. 10 CitingState Archives

y National Archives of Australia fact Sheet 7 Citingarchival records

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Definition: Source types specify which characteristics of thesource are to be recorded, and how the footnotes andbibliography entries will be formatted.1

y Characteristics title, author, publisher, date, publisherlocation, etc

y Format how to arrange these characteristics when citingthe source order, punctuation

1. Terry Reigel,A Primer for The Master Genealogist (Modbury, South Australia:Gould Genealogy, 2008), 46.

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These are the characteristics of the source.

Source Groups = Source citation FIELDS

Source Elements = Source citation field LABELS

y There are 32 Source Groups (fields) can use each one

only once, but in any ordery Use Source Elements (labels) to make data entry easier

when creating Source in Master Source List

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Full footnote where you cite the source fora specificpiece of information, includes Citation Detail

Short footnote short version of full footnote forsubsequent citations of same source, includesCitation Detail

Bibliography list of sources at the end of the book,

report, chart, etc.Shown in Output form tab

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Hoffman, Lee H. (editor). Getting the Most out of The Master Genealogist. Modbury,South Australia: Gould Genealogy, 2003.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts toCyberspace. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007.

National Archives of Australia. Fact sheet 7 Citing archival records. Website.http://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/publications/fact-sheets/fs07.aspx, retrieved 17

May2009.Reigel, Terry.A Primer for The Master Genealogist. Modbury, South Australia: Gould

Genealogy, 2008.

Reigel, Terry. Working with Source Elements and Groups.Website. Terry Reigel.Terrys TMG Tips. http://tmg.reigelridge.com/Source-Elements.htm: last updated5 May2006.

State Records New South Wales.Archives in Brief No. 10 Citing State archives.Website. http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-

aids/archives-in-brief/archives-in-brief-10, retrieved 17 May2009.

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