Hi, Kay! I used the Internet>Database template and put Ancestry.com as the Website title and not the Website Creator. I left Website creator blank. I wonder if this is just a bug in the template or if there is some reason Website creator does not show up in a footnote. I may have to check out my Mills EE book again.
Jennifer ----- Original Message ---- From: Kay Fordham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 7:52:52 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Writer Question Jennifer - I have a question on your second example below (index with no image). The citation I created was in the same format; however, the creator of the database, Ancestry.com, was not included between "database" and "(http://www.ancestry.com/search)" in the endnote/footnote even though I entered them as the webpage creator. They did show up in the bibliography entry; i.e., "database, Ancestry.com (http://www - - -)." Which Source Writer template did you use? Thanks, Kay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Trahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 4:43 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Writer Question Richard: I have to disagree somewhat. The Nevada Marriage Index at Ancestry.com is strictly an index and does not contain images. Therefore, it is not *exactly* like the US census records. When you cite digital images, it is different than citing an index or transcription. But I do cite Ancestry.com in both citations so that I know where to go back to find the digital image or index entry. And I would also say that Ancestry.com is the originator of that particular database, though Nevada is the originator of the information that is part of the database. Ancestry formatted that information to suit its customers' needs and physically created the database, so I think it would be incorrect to give Nevada credit for the database. All: I don't understand how any can say that they've seen the original State of Nevada index at Ancestry.com. As the OP said, Ancestry took two indexes and created one database with both of them. Also, the entries I've researched in that particular index at Ancestry.com do not have images of the original two indexes. It is strictly a transcription. Are there other entries that have images of the index? In that case, then you would be citing a digital image of an index and you could put the State of Nevada or Clark County as the author of the index. It would look something like this: Clark County, Nevada, Marriage Index Book 210: 25, Smith-Jones; Marriage Bureau, Las Vegas; digital image, "Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005," Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Aug 2008). If you were just looking at the index with no image on Ancestry.com, then you would do something more like this: "Nevada Marriage Index, 1956-2005," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/search : accessed 12 Oct 2008), entry for Victor L, King and Betty J. Hackett, 10 Feb 1998; citing Nevada Marriage Book 210: C923786, no. 71867. Jennifer ** $10 OFF when you spend $50 or more in our store. Use coupon code: ‘Legacy2008’ at checkout. Offer expires 10/31/08 ** 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 ** $10 OFF when you spend $50 or more in our store. Use coupon code: �Legacy2008� at checkout. Offer expires 10/31/08 ** 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
