Hi Cathy, I saw Mark Tucker's video yesterday at http://www.thinkgenealogy.com/better-online-citations/ and was very impressed. As a pretty new person to genealogy and to Legacy I must admit that I've been surprised that we cannot easily download both sources and source citations from the common web sites such as Family Search or Ancestry or Footnote.
Maybe the next version of Legacy will include those features! Brian -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:11 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Can Genealogy Web Sites Make it Easier to Cite Sources? Dear Fellow LUG readers, I read this interesting article this morning and realized that I would love to have this feature as described in the article and the video. However, I wonder how conceivable it would be to get web sites like Ancestry, FamilySearch and others to agree to standardize their source citations. Of course, how this would work on personal web sites or USGenWeb sites was not mentioned. Only some commercial web sites were discussed. Article: "Can Genealogy Web Sites Make it Easier to Cite Sources?" http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Can+Genealogy+Web+Sites+Make+ It+Easier+To+Cite+Sources.aspx Right now, I spend time on including detailed source citations every time I place a piece of data into my Legacy databases. My main rule of thumb is one that I had leaned some years ago as an internal auditor, namely, be sure that whoever reads your source citation can use it alone to lead them back to the original documentation. Because I have trained myself to do this, I don't consider citing sources to be difficult but I know other genealogists who do. Of course, Legacy has two ways to cite sources which might be an issue if web sites were ever to adopt this premise of Mark Tucker. However, Tucker doesn't seem to think this would be a problem as he mentioned that Legacy v7 would be able to accept a download of a standard source citation today, if this feature were available on web sites. As I found this such an interesting idea, I thought that I would pass the web link along to you LUG readers. What do you think? Cathy 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 The information contained in this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, dissemination or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and delete the message from your system. Thank you. 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
