Brian, I can (almost) agree with you about census citations. They are so widely available, and pretty much anyone who has done even minimal research is aware that they can check another copy of the same census elsewhere. However, census is not all we have to cite.
For instance, if you find a death in the Oregon Death Index online at Ancestry.com: Floyd DeBoard, Hood River County, Oregon, certificate no. 3954, Oregon State Archives and Records Center, Salem, Oregon. Would you feel it appropriate to cite the record without mentioning that you got the info from Ancestry.com? Janis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Lightfoot Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 3:18 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sources and the elusive version 7 .... again. I'm not completely sold on the idea that given an identical source document such as a specific census page, that one needs to specify just where they happened to look at the digital image. That census page is the same no matter where you look at it or who supplied you the copy or image of it. The fact that Ancestry's image may not be as clear as Heritage's has nothing to do with the document itself but rather the user's ability to discern the correctness of what he perceives to be the data. If one were to follow your suggestion then should we not specify the exact library of where we read a book that was cited as a source? After all, the pages on a book at the Chicago library may not be as dirty or have as much graffiti as the same exact book in the New York library. Brian Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
