Whose Citations Are In the List?
What Citations Are In the List?
Columns and Sorting in the Citations List
Searching for Duplicate Citations
Sharing/Reporting the Citations List
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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...
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
button to specify whose citations will be included in the list. The choices are citations for...What Citations Are In the List?
Use the
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
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
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 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...
Reunion will search everybody, marked people, or unmarked people (depending on the choice in the
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 button appears next to the button. This enables/disables the searching of note fields for duplicate citations.
To remove duplicates, click the
button. A confirmation window will appear.Sharing/Reporting the Citations List
The Citations list has a 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...
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...