Question

joined to (Fugit-58) says to edit & delete, my sources bottom MO. Marriage down Help please

Answer 1

Catlyn it looks like someone went in and edited most of the biography but did not remove the notes that came in when it was created by gedcom.

All you have to do is select edit and delete the phrase This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.  Which is said again under sources.  

Then under sources delete the phrase This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.  Because you seem to have some primary sources for the marriages.  

Several of the sources and the bullets appear to be duplicates just worded a little differently.   Sources 2, 3, 4 are identical because they are inline sources for items listed in the bio.  Then it appears that additional sources not set up as inline sources are falling under the inline sources.

Are you asking how to fix this or asking someone to fix it?  Without having access to the sources for someone else to fix it you would have to indicate which sources support what phrases in the bio.  If you want to use all inline sources.  If you want to use all bullets you can delete some things and consolidate them.  

 

 

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I understood the first part I hope. But are you saying "Sources 2, 3, 4 are identical" and Two of them can be eliminated? I don't know how to do the "inline sources".approach. I've been doing all bullets I hope that's not wrong. I need help to know what to delete and what to consolidate. And what to study.I take my sources from my Ancesty.com. tree.

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Catlyn if you would rather not use inline sources (some love them, some hate them, some use them depending on the profile) and use bullets then yes you can delete some of the redundant ones that are there because of inline sourcing.  

As for what to consolidate.  2, 3, 4 and a bullet all refer to the same 1920 census record.  You can consolidate them.  

Under the Biography header you can delete Name sub head and data and Birth sub head and data as they are covered in the synopsis above.

I would keep the residence but delete the little footnote number because you are deleting inline sources.

Now under sources, Take info in  # 1 and combine it with the bullet for 1920 Census.  After you do that delete 1, 2, 3. 

then put an * in front of Source: "Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern, California", Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, 1891  to create a bullet for it.

The two bullet sources for the census in 1920 under the 1, 2, 3 can also be consolidated as part of the 1920 census bullet.  You may want to move everything to that bullet then look at it and edit it so there is no redundancy in the final bullet.

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Thank you so very much Laura