Thanks for the advise, maybe if I said what I was trying to do you all can tell me if I'm smoking crack or not. There are several books covering both my father and mother's sides of the family. I've either obtained or created PDFs of these books and I'm OCRing them, essentially reproducing a machine readable galley.
I'll have a source, which is the book name, then I have source details on the individuals that looks like this:
243 SusANNAH HOFFMAN (37) b. 1804, m. June 15, 1822, Jonas Costner, and lived in or near Dallas, N. C. Later, she m. Jan. 2, 1834, Elisha Withers, Jr. She is said to be bur. at ·Philadelphia Church graveyard.
Her children:
Mary Costner .. . .. . ............ 1164 ..... b 1823.
Barbara Costner .... .. ........... 1165 ..... b 1824.
Margaret Costner .................. 1166 ..... b 1825.
Elizabeth Costner ................. 1167 ..... b 1827.
Jacob Melchi Costner .. ........... 1168 ..... b 1829.
John Withers . ...... . . . ....... 1169 ..... b 1835.
Sidney Withers . .................. 1170 ..... b 1837.
Miles Withers ............. ....... 1171 ..... b 1839.
Sophia Withers ... ................ 1172 ..... b 1841.
Elisha Withers ............. ...... 1173...... b 1843.
I'll reference page 111, and cite the text, book name (source) on the referenced individuals. Each individual has a number assigned by the book's author (something I have in a couple of these books) and I would like to reference it so it's searchable.
Since I'm doing this in order to share this research, if I do it in a way no one else understands I'm pretty much wasting my time. With the whole point that someone else can look at say "this information is good, and I can verify it by doing X", I don't want the response to be "what's that for?"
Would other genealogists with more experience than I find that usefull?