The Citations List

What Is the Citations List?

Whose Citations Are In the List?

What Citations Are In the List?

Columns and Sorting in the Citations List

Things To Know

Searching for Duplicate Citations

Sharing/Reporting the Citations List

Sources and Citations

Searching for Citations

List Window

What Is the Citations List?

If you're new to citations, or if you're not sure of the difference between a source and a citation, click here for a crash course.

To see the Citations list...

  1. Click the List button in the navbar (or press Command-L).
  2. Click Citations.

The Citations list appears in Reunion's List window. It's a powerful and flexible tool for reviewing, searching, and managing citations and citation detail.

The current content of the Citations list appears as a subtitle, just above the first row in the list. In the example below, the content is described as "Citations to sources of template 'Census' for all people."

Whose Citations Are In the List?

Use the Who button to specify whose citations will be included in the list. The choices are citations for...

What Citations Are In the List?

Use the Include button to select the content of the list. The choices are...

Columns and Sorting in the Citations List

The Citations list contains the following columns:

The list can be sorted by clicking column titles. For example, sorting by the Citation Detail column would make it easy to check for consistency or errors in your detail records. If sorted by the Template column, all census source citations will be grouped together, all books would be grouped together, etc. If sorted by the Source Number column (Src#), then all citations to the same sources would be grouped together. There are many possibilities.

Columns can be repositioned by clicking and dragging any column header.

Note: Sorting on the Name column will sort by Last Name, First Name.

Things To Know About the Citations List

Here are more key features of the Citations list...

When viewing the Sources sidebar or Source list, the Tools menu item Show Citations to Source xxx opens the Citations list. This can also be accessed by Control-clicking a source record in the Sources sidebar or List window.

In the Person menu, select Citations to show all citations of the current person in the Citations list.

At the bottom of the Sources sidebar (when showing sources for the "Family"), a Citations button appears. This opens the Citations list, showing all citations for the current husband, wife, and their family fields (such as marriage citations).

When in the family view, use these handy letter-key keyboard shortcuts for showing citations...

Searching for Duplicate Citations

The Citations can find instances where...

This duplication can be intentional or accidental; either way, Reunion can find it for you and offer the option to remove the duplication.

To do this...

  1. Click the List button in the navbar (or press Command-L).
  2. Click Citations.
  3. Use the Include menu to select either Duplicate source # or Duplicate citations, as shown below...

Reunion will search everybody, marked people, or unmarked people (depending on the choice in the Who menu) and then create a list of instances where fields have duplicate citation numbers or duplicate citation and detail.


In the Citations list, duplicate entries will appear in italic text.

In note fields, it may be more common and intentional to cite the same source multiple times (in different paragraphs, for example). Thus, a separate Notes button appears next to the Include button. This enables/disables the searching of note fields for duplicate citations.

To remove duplicates, click the Delete Duplicates button. A confirmation window will appear.

Sharing/Reporting the Citations List

The Citations list has a Share button in the bottom-left, so the list can be shared as a text report.

The arrangement of the report can vary greatly depending on "Who" is selected, what is "Included," and the field by which the list is sorted. I.e., the setup of these two menus at the top of the Citations list...

Examples...

  1. The example on the right shows a report of the citations to one source (#33) as it would appear in your word processor. This citations list was sorted by field, thus the report is grouped according to the field in which the citations appeared.
  2. The example below is a report of the citations for one person. The citations list was sorted by field, as is reflected in the report. The 6 unique sources that are cited in the person record are listed at the end of the report.

Reunion attempts to configure the report according to the selection in the the "Who" and "Include" menus, as well as the field by which the list is sorted. And it attempts to remove as much redundancy as possible from the report.

Other examples...

  1. A list of all citations for all people, sorted by person name will group the citations by person name. In this case, the citation will be reported as: Field Location, Source Number, Source Description, Citation Detail.
  2. A list of all citations for all people, sorted by source number will group the citations by source number. In this case, the citation will be reported as: Person Name, Field Location, Detail.