TMG 
Source Category
Conversion

(Note: This applies to all versions of TMG)

TMG has two styles of Source Categories: One is based on Richard S. Lackey, Cite Your Sources (Jackson: University of Mississippi, 1980), and the other is based on Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence! Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1997).  These styles are slightly different.  Wholly Genes has designed TMG such that if you are using one style and wish to change to the other, then TMG will convert from one to the other by use of a conversion table.  Due to the fact that there are only 14 Lackey Source Categories and 106 Mills Source Categories, the conversion will not always be optimal.  Your data will not be lost, but you should review/edit each Source to make sure that the best Source Category for that Source is used.  Thus it is recommended that you don't convert very often. In other words, choose which style you wish to use and stick with it.

Below are two tables showing the categories of the two styles and their associated conversion category from the other style.

This Mills Source Category Converts to this Lackey Source Category
Ancestral File(TM) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Article (Journal) Periodical
Article (Serialized; Annotated Citation) Periodical
Baptismal Record Civil Vital Record
Bible Record Family Bible
Birth Registration (State Level) Civil Vital Record
Birth Registration (Local Level) Civil Vital Record
Book (Author Unidentified but Known) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Author Unknown) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Authored by an Agency) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Authored) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Compiled Records) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Edited) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Multi-Authored) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Multi-Volume) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Multi-Volume Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (One of Series) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Paginated Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Pagination Not Given) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Privately Printed) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Publication Date Not Given) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Publication Place Not Given) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Publisher Not Given) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Reprint) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book (Revised Edition) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Book Chapter Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Bounty-Land File (Federal, State/Federal Land Record
CD-ROM (Produced from Original Records) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
CD-ROM (Produced from Prior Publication) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Cemetery Marker Church/Cemetery Record
Cemetery Marker (Published) Church/Cemetery Record
Census Compendium Census Record
Census Census Record
Census Census Record
Census Census Record
Church Minute Church/Cemetery Record
City (or County) Directory Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Computer Software Unpublished / Miscellaneous
DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report (DAR Library Copy) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
DAR Genealogical Records Committee Report (Local/State Copy) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Death Registration (Local Level) Civil Vital Record
Death Registration (State Level) Civil Vital Record
Deed (State Level) State/Federal Land Record
Deed (Town or County Level) State/Federal Land Record
Diary or Journal (Manuscript) Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Diary or Journal (Published Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Dissertation Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Dissertation (Microfilmed) Unpublished/Miscellaneous
E-Mail Message Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Electronic Database (Family File) Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Electronic File (Image from Private Files - Annotated) Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Electronic File (Image from Public Archives) Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Electronic File (Listserve Message) Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Electronic Web Site Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Electronically Published Paper (Previously Published in Hard Copy) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Family Group Sheet (with Annotation) Unpublished/Miscellaneous
Family History Library (FHL) (Microcopy of Published Work) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Family History Library (FHL) (Microcopy of Unpublished Material) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Government Document (Published) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
International Genealogical Index (TM) (IGI) Entry Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Interview Oral Communication
Law Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Law Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Lecture (Taped) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Legal Case (Published Report) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Legal Case (Unpublished) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Letter (Annotated Citation) Letter
Lineage Application Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Manuscript (Filmed for Distribution) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Manuscript (Filmed) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Manuscript (Unfilmed) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Map (Historic) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Map (Topographic) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Marriage (Church - Certificate) Church/Cemetery Record
Marriage (Church - Copy Church/Cemetery Record
Marriage (Church - Copy Church/Cemetery Record
Marriage (Church - Original Record) Church/Cemetery Record
Marriage (Civil) Civil Vital Record
Military - Service File (Filmed) Military Record
Military Record (Manuscript) Military Record
National Archives Film/Fiche (Basic Form) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
National Archives Manuscript (Basic Form) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
National Archives Regional (Unofficial Film Holdings) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Naturalization Record Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Obituary/Newspaper Item Newspaper
Pension File (Filmed) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Periodical (Issued in Multiple Series) Periodical
Photo Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Photograph (Private Possession) (Annotated with Provenance) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Probate File Courthouse Record
Research Report Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Series - Book (with Subsets) Book, Pamphlet, or Monograph
Ship Passenger List (Filmed) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Syllabus Material Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Tax Roll (Filmed) Tax List
Tax Roll (Unfilmed) Tax List
Thesis Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Town Record Civil Vital Record
Translated Work Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Video Unpublished / Miscellaneous
Vital Record (Filmed) Courthouse Record
Vital Record (Published) Civil Vital Record
Will (Recorded) Courthouse Record
Will (Unrecorded) Courthouse Record

 

This Lackey Source Category Converts to this Mills Source Category
Book Book (Authored)
Periodical Article (Journal)
Newspaper Obituary/Newspaper Item
Unpublished / Miscellaneous Manuscript (Unfilmed)
Census Record Census Compendium
Tax List Tax Roll (Filmed)
Family Bible Bible Record
Letter Letter (Annotated Citation)
Civil Vital Record Baptismal Record
Courthouse Record Probate File
Church/Cemetery Record Cemetery Marker
State/Federal Land Record Bounty-Land File (Federal, Unfilmed)
Military Record Military - Service File (Filmed)
Oral Communication Interview

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