Keith, I for one have long ago abandoned any attempt to use URL's of this nature in citations. You have pointed to one problem and the other is that with the nature of URL's and web-design and re-design and re-design and ... the URL by its very nature has little or no permanence to it.
>From what I can see you are looking at an obituary on Ancestry.com referencing >a Bage. To me, the citation would require that you acknowledge that it was >from Ancestry.com and the search parameters that will allow others to locate >it, such as the name, where published originally, date published, etc. These >items should be taken from the item viewed not the ones you used for the >search, it can be different. Many of these issues are being foisted off on us because E. S. Mills says this is the way it should be and we all are jumping on it. Let's hope she doesn't write a new book or we'll all be converting again. I expect this reply to evoke a storm of protest ... so be it! Don From: Keith Bage Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:58 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Citing LONG!! url's I am using the new source writer to cite an online obituary and in the source detail I'm asked to enter the "specific" url. In this case the url is from Ancestry (see below). Surely this can;t be the right url to reference? How are others doing this? Any advice? http://www.ancestry.com/search/obit/view.aspx?db=web-obituary&kw=bage&pid=6741758&url=http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll%3Fdb%3dweb-obituary%252c%26rank%3d0%26_80004002%3d%26_80004003%3dbage%26gsco%3d1%252cAll%2bCountries%26gspl%3d1%252c%2b%26_82000004%3d%26_810002A3%3d%26_810002A2%3d%26_810002A1%3d%26rg_83004031-int%3d%26rs_83004031-int%3d1%26_81004013%3d%26_81004012%3d%26_81004011%3d%26_81004033%3d%26_81004032%3d%26_81004031%3d%26_80100002%3d%26_80100003%3d%26_F0002717%3d%26gskw%3d%26prox%3d1%26_F0002716%3d%26ti%3d0%26ti.si%3d0%26gss%3dangs-d Keith Bage 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
