How can I repeat source when entering several items that date back to the same source

Question

Carmack-386. I listed the births and deaths of several children who all died in infancy, using the same source. I repeated the source for each. Is there a way I could just use [5] for each of them instead of [6], [7], [8], etc. repeating the same source?

Thanks

Comments

First time use --<ref name="birth of child">MCDOUGAL/SMITH/CARMACK/

POWERS/RAMER FAMILIES. By Joe M. Powers. Printed by Mannis Printing Company Knoxville, Tennessee. 3 Oct. '82</ref>

(The inverted commas  / quotation marks are required.)

Each subsequent use -- <ref name="birth of child" /> (The space after child" and before /> is required.)

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Space characters before the / character in a repeated named reference or the <references /> line look nicer, but in what sense are they required? The biography come out perfectly well without them.

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I don't normally add such spaces, but it seemed easier to explain to a newbie to repeated use of a reference to do it that way. Confusion is never helpful.

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HI, Melanie,

I tried your suggestion, but when I clicked save, it removed the subsequent children. So I put it back the old way. Sorry.

Thank you, though,

Deborah

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Deborah, it probably didn't remove the children, but it looked like that had happened because they didn't show up on the profile.  You probably didn't include one of the ending reference tags.  In edit mode, I think you could probably still see them.  If you want to try it again, I think someone can take a look and help you.

Edited to fix minor typo.

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Julie beat me to what I was about to say.

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Also causing problems is the single <ref> you have on "Ceremony was performed by her uncle, Reverend James. A. Smith." 

That alone is causing the huge error chunk that looks like this: 

</li> <li id="_note-5">[[#_ref-5|↑]]

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Thank you, Julie, I tried again and fixed it. Must have been user error, sorry.

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My mistake, but thanks for letting me know. It's fixed now. Duh!

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We all have moments like that.  A missing / in an end-ref (</ref>) causes me many a   moment.

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Glad I could help, Deborah, and I know Melanie is too.