Mary, Debbie and All; The purpose of citing a source is so you remember where you obtained the information and so others who view your work can go back to that particular source and see it for themselves. If you view a WWI draft card on Ancestry.com and you cite your source so it appears that you have actually viewed the NARA microfilm, your source information is incorrect and misleading. There is a difference between the images viewed on Ancestry and the actual microfilms. The WWI draft cards are a great example. A while back (I believe the situation has been rectified) there was a problem with some of the WWI draft cards having the first page with a persons information and the second page was from a different person although they appeared on the same page.
For example, if you looked up John Q Ancestors WWI draft card in Dayton Ohio on Ancestry, the left side of the screen (page 1) would have John Q Ancestors' information. The right side of the screen would have someone else, from an entirely different location (maybe Massachusetts). This error was due to how the microfilm was set up and the way that Ancestry digitized and sorted the images. If you cited Ancestry's database as the source, those who knew about this error might have gone and double checked to be sure the information was not gathered during the time of the error. If you cited the NARA microfilms as your source, then others looking at your work would not know your data could have contained an error. To cite a source for a census or other NARA microfilm viewed on Ancestry or any other webpage, you should note in your citation that the source is a digitized image taken from an NARA microfilm publication and not that you viewed the actual microfilm itself. Ancestry in this case is both the repository and the source. You should only cite a microfilm as the source if you actually viewed the film. To most of you on this list, it may not matter. To those of us in the genealogy profession or to those who wish to have their genealogy conform to professional standards, it does matter. Linda Altman http://www.southerngenealogy.com -----Original Message----- From: Debbie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 6:55 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source citation - SSDI Mary, To answer your question, at the bottom of every source in Ancestry, they have their version of a source citation for that source. I usually use those and remove the Ancestry.com at the beginning of the source citation. I just copy and paste from Ancestry into a new Legacy source. I paste it into the publisher's information area ( the bottom area), remove the Ancestry.com., and move the title to the appropriate area on the source form. Hope that makes sense. Debbie Have you unlocked the real power of Legacy? Legacy 6.0 Deluxe has 92 features not found in the Standard Edition. Learn more about these features at http://legacyfamilytree.com/DeluxeEdition.asp. Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
