ronald ferguson wrote
However, I suggest that this is not the point. I agree that the full
references for a piece of paper held by eg. The National Archives is
that given by them; but does the reference matter at all. No matter
what changes commercial companies may make to their indexes the
question is surely "in the future will we be able to search for a
document using eg. date, place, name, birth date and place of birth?"
That's my reasoning.
I generally use Ancestry for Censuses (which are 99.99% British in my
case) and I record Class (I *think* that's what the HO# or RG# part is
called), Piece, Folio and Page (or C, P, Book, F & P in 1841) and the
fact that I found the entry on Ancestry.
I record a person's name exactly as it is written on the Enumerator's
sheet. If Ancestry have mistranscribed I submit a correction. There
might be the very occasional case where Ancestry have mistranscribed a
name that was incorrect in the original but I don't bother to record
both versions, I must admit.
If anyone wants to follow up my research in the future they can
(perhaps) either look in Ancestry for exactly what I have recorded or
can do their own searches wherever and however they like.
--
Jenny M Benson
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