making note of the strength of evidence

[Teresa C]

I may well have asked this many years ago, but it has come up again for me so I thought I would raise it anew :-)

When I use sources to make a note of where I found the evidence to support at fact, it's important for me that I understand whether the evidence is primary or secondary, and whether it is direct or indirect. ESM / EE has a lovely diagram that illustrates this.
I have never been able to find an efficient way of making a note of this for each citation in Reunion - and to be fair, I'm not aware of any other genealogy software that does this well either.

I would love to know if / how other users approach this?

Thanks!

[Seagram]

No direct answer to your question. But MacFamilyTree does have this option. I'm also curious how people solve this.

[James Milne]

From what I remember from using TMG you were able to grade each source from 1 to 5 which I found very useful and that was one of the features I missed when moving to Reunion. I’m sure this has been discussed before and a “work around” has probably been suggested.

[Teresa C]

From what I remember from using TMG you were able to grade each source from 1 to 5 which I found very useful and that was one of the features I missed when moving to Reunion. I’m sure this has been discussed before and a “work around” has probably been suggested.

I really liked that feature in TMG too, James. I think when I raised this some years ago someone suggested adding a field to each source template - but the problem with that is the same source could have a different "rating" depending on the fact it is linked to. I have played around with using the Citation Detail field, but I sometimes like to use that for other reasons, so it's not really useful across the board, so to speak.