* Sources v Citations

[Johnr65]

I know I've been down this route before but having looked at the tutorials, I cannot see what the difference is between a citation and a source?
When I add a new person to my tree, I press 'add citation' and enter the title of the source and the address of the source if necessary, then in enter in text from source the vol and page no. if a bmd, then press create. However once it has been created, the newly created source/citation is shown but the previously entered text from source isn't shown? Driving me mad.
How can adding a 'citation' become a source?
Using AS is OK as it sorts it out for one but FH doesn't seem to.

[Jane]

Sources and citations are different things, and a lot depends on your choice of methods for sourcing.

If you use Method 1 on Ancestral Sources, so for example each Page of the Census, or each Birth Certificate is a Source, then you are using Method 1.

The Citation links the Fact to the Source, and it can have it's own Source from Text etc, which for Method 1 you don't normally use to any extent.

This means when you manually create a Source, you would put the Text from Source in the Source and not on the Citation. So you don't use the fields at the bottom of the Property Box, but rather jump to the source record and put them there.

If you have not already done so, I highly recommend reading through

glossary:sources|Sources

[Johnr65]

Thank you Jane that was most informative.