The Repository... button gives you a chance to include important information for some sources. When you click it, you can choose from a list you've accumulated as you've entered sources for people in this file. There are none yet, let's enter one.

From this screen you can add, edit, and delete repository names from or to the list. Click on the add button and the Repository edit screen appears. There is a place for the name, address, and telephone number. Once you have these pieces of information entered, press OK.

Selecting the Repository:—The entry you just made now appears on the repository list. Select the entry by highlighting the name of the repository you want; and clicking Select.

But we clicked the birth source so that needs to be entered.

You would put in the repository's address, where you sent to obtain the copy of the birth certificate you have.

Notice that, as you complete information in the boxes above, the footnote or other printed reference built from this information is displayed in the bottom box of the form.

Clicking OK brings you to a confirmation screen.

Notice that you can edit, amplify any information on this screen. You could also see all sources associated with this individual by clicking on the < or the >.

Notice that, as you complete information in the boxes above, the footnote or other printed reference built from this information is displayed in the bottom box of the form.

If you were to create reference to a published source, you would click the appropriate boxes to italicize the title and put the publication information into parentheses for a printed report. As a reminder, books, microfilm, DCs and published software should be italicized.

If you want quotation marks around the publication information, it will have to be typed in as part of the text in the publication box. An unpublished manuscript, interview, dissertation, lecture, and lineage application title would be placed in quotation marks. This would also apply to the titles of articles, titles of chapters, and unpublished books.

Clicking OK on the source screen brings you back the individual edit screen.

Notice that there is now an asterisk ( * ) next to the source indicator, showing that there is specific information available there.

To review all the sources listed for an individual, click the icon.

That brings you to a list of all sources you've entered for an individual.

To review: While, it was a good exercise to learn to use source notes, while you are taking this course, please do NOT enter your notes in this manner. Rather enter all your notes in the general notes area of your genealogy computer software program so the notes can be studied quickly and accurately in chronological order.