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Bible Example

This page created 14 Feb 2005

Applies to Versions 8 & 9

This example illustrates how a family Bible might be entered as a source. See the introduction for notes that apply to all three of these examples.

Here is the example provided by Ms. Mills' Evidence! for Bible Record (with Provenance):

Primary Citation (Endnotes or Footnotes)	Subsequent Citation (Endnotes or Footnotes)	Bibliographic Entry
1. Family data, Charles Bertrand Family Bible, La Sainte Bible, new edition (Paris: Pourrat Frères, 1838); original owned in 1996 by Gary B. Mills (1732 Ridgedale Drive; Tuscaloosa, AL 35406). The Bertrand Family Bible passed from Charles to his daughter Henriette (Bertrand) Charleville, to her daughter Manerva (Charleville) Mills, to her grandson, Gary B. Mills.	1. Charles Bertrand Family Bible.	Bertrand, Charles, family data. In La Sainte Bible. New edition. Paris: Pourrat Frères, 1838. Original owned in 1996 by Gary B. Mills, 1732 Ridgedale Drive; Tuscaloosa, AL 35406-1942.

Wholly Genes has interpreted that example to create the following TMG templates for it's source type Bible Record:

Full Footnote	Short Footnote	Bibliography
[FAMILY INFO], [ITAL:][BIBLE TITLE][:ITAL]<, [EDITION]> ([PUBLISHER ADDRESS]: [PUBLISHER], [PUBLISH DATE]); [PRESENT OWNER], [LOCATION]<, [CD]><. Hereinafter cited as [SHORT BIBLE TITLE]>.	[SHORT BIBLE TITLE]<, [CD]>.	[FAMILY INFO]. [ITAL:][BIBLE TITLE][:ITAL]<, [EDITION]>. [PUBLISHER ADDRESS]: [PUBLISHER], [PUBLISH DATE]. [PRESENT OWNER], [LOCATION].

In an attempt to match the example in Evidence! I then entered the following data in a TMG source definition, using TMG's Bible Record source type:

When I created a report in TMG citing this source, the program used the Output Templates in the Source Type and the text I had entered in the various Source Elements to create the following notes:

Full Footnote	Short Footnote	Bibliography
Family data - Charles Bertrand Family Bible, La Sainte Bible, new edition (Paris: Pourrat Frères, 1838); original owned in 1996 by Gary B. Mills, 1732 Ridgedale Drive; Tuscaloosa, AL 35406. Hereinafter cited as Charles Bertrand Family Bible.	Charles Bertrand Family Bible.	Family data - Charles Bertrand Family Bible. La Sainte Bible, new edition. Paris: Pourrat Frères, 1838. Original owned in 1996 by Gary B. Mills, 1732 Ridgedale Drive; Tuscaloosa, AL 35406.

To make it easier to compare, I'm repeating Ms. Mills' examples here:

1. Family data, Charles Bertrand Family Bible, La Sainte Bible, new edition (Paris: Pourrat Frères, 1838); original owned in 1996 by Gary B. Mills (1732 Ridgedale Drive; Tuscaloosa, AL 35406). The Bertrand Family Bible passed from Charles to his daughter Henriette (Bertrand) Charleville, to her daughter Manerva (Charleville) Mills, to her grandson, Gary B. Mills.

1. Charles Bertrand Family Bible.

Bertrand, Charles, family data. In La Sainte Bible. New edition. Paris: Pourrat Frères, 1838. Original owned in 1996 by Gary B. Mills, 1732 Ridgedale Drive; Tuscaloosa, AL 35406-1942.

Some Notes on this Example:

Many standard Source Types in TMG include the "Hereinafter cited as..." phrase, which is not included in the examples in Evidence! Many users (including me) think that is unnecessary unless the short title is very different than the full title, and they remove that phrase from the Source Type templates.
In her example, Ms. Mills reverses the order of the first two phrases in the primary citation and the bibliography, but TMG uses the same source element, Family Info, for both. I entered that information in the format she used for the bibliography. Solutions to this are to enter the data directly into the Output Templates for one of them, or to add another source element to split the two phrases, and adjust the Output Template accordingly.
In her example Ms. Mills used a longer version of the provenance in the full footnote than she did in the bibliography. TMG's default Bible Record source type uses the same Present Owner source element for both, so I chose to enter the shorter version. A better solution might be to enter the longer version in the Comments field on the Supplemental tab of the Source Definition screen, as shown in the screenshot below, and modify the Output Template for the Full Footnote to use that. Long sections of text such as the provenance here often entered in the Comments source element.

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