Upgrade StorageGenealogy workarounds?
I've just started looking into Zotero for use in a genealogy project. I see in these forums several discussions regarding the possibility of defining a new citation style suitable for genealogy, and perhaps other improvements to Zotero that would facilitate its use for genealogy. However what I haven't found here, or elsewhere, is what workarounds people may be using right now until such upgrades come along.
For instance: here's a census citation I lifted from another forum discussion:
1790 U.S. census, Grafton County, New Hampshire, Rumney, page 75 (penned at top of column), line 18, William Preston (1-5-2-0-0^8); digital image, _Ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 Oct 2005), citing National Archives microfilm publication M637, roll 5<, [CD]>. Census is in alpha order; there are no other entries for surname Preston (any variant); there are three Clark families on the prior page; Charles Clark, Jonathan Clark, Joseph Clark.
Supposing I wanted to create (manually) a new item for such a census citation, and then use that item in a genealogy article, using the tools presently available in Zotero. What would be the best way to go about it? I don't see any defined item types that really are suitable. But as I said, I've only just started looking at Zotero, so my knowledge of how to use it is pretty limited.
For instance: here's a census citation I lifted from another forum discussion:
1790 U.S. census, Grafton County, New Hampshire, Rumney, page 75 (penned at top of column), line 18, William Preston (1-5-2-0-0^8); digital image, _Ancestry.com_ (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 5 Oct 2005), citing National Archives microfilm publication M637, roll 5<, [CD]>. Census is in alpha order; there are no other entries for surname Preston (any variant); there are three Clark families on the prior page; Charles Clark, Jonathan Clark, Joseph Clark.
Supposing I wanted to create (manually) a new item for such a census citation, and then use that item in a genealogy article, using the tools presently available in Zotero. What would be the best way to go about it? I don't see any defined item types that really are suitable. But as I said, I've only just started looking at Zotero, so my knowledge of how to use it is pretty limited.
Thanks and Good Luck either way
Amanda
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In library column I have several folders and subfolders of the family lines I am researching. I also have a folder that is called working files. These contain the webpage sources that I have clipped. Once I have reviewed them and input them to genealogy program I save them to the appropriate family folder.
The far right column has the download info.
Item type=Web Page
Title = the website info directly downloaded when you click Create Webpage item
Author = name of the ancestor - surname,christian name(s)
Abstract = event i.e. birth, marriage, death, etc.
Website Title = any other information from the website needed to identify source, such as collection, database etc.
Website type - don't use this one as yet
Date = use if the year of the document is not on the original document
Short title - don't use
URL = automatically added
Accessed = automatically added
Language = use this from time to time if the language of the document is not the norm, which in my case is German. Some of the documents are in Russian and I enter this so that I can send them to a translator, when I find one.
Rights - don't use
Extra = I use this for the page number
From the Title, Website Title and Extra I can make a pretty good citation in the genealogy program for the source of the document.
As I use this mostly in two archives with scanned images of church records, the folder for an entry has an image of the document. I open this in Paint, use the rounded rectangle tool plus red colour and highlight the entry for the ancestor. I then save the image as a .jpg with the filename being the name of the ancestor (surname, christian names) if it is a birth. If death I just add death to the name; or, if it is a marriage I use both names.
examples: Smith, John David
Smith, John David - Jones, Emily
Smith, John David death
I would copy the newly labeled file to an appropriate documents file and the naming protocol would file them together. If one or more has the same name and I catch this early I might add the year of birth to the name.