Jenny M Benson wrote: "I am curious as to why you are using a database template when your Source is online images.
I don't have access to the Ancestry records to which you refer, but I think I would use the Marriage records>Found in Governmental records>Marriage registers>Created at State/Provincial level/Online images template (or something similar if that isn't an exact match) and add the further detail - where known - at Source Detail level. This is how I approach very similar English records with images on Ancestry. Where the Source details are incomplete (or incorrect, as sometimes happens with Ancestry!) I note this in the Source Detail Comments." Jenny, Ordinarily, I do as you suggest, but these particular Missouri marriages are a complete "hodge podge" of images. For some counties, the images are almost impossible to read, so my information is coming more from the database than the image. In other locations, it is impossible to determine the volume and page number (and as a result, it is the database, not the images, that is telling me the marriage occurred in XYZ county). In still others, I can't tell for sure whether it is a register or some other format. I therefore decided it was safer to cite the database than the image. I can't remember my exact reasoning at the time but it was probably some combination of the following: (1) This alerts me that I need to do more to find the original record than I might ordinarily do with other images. (2) I'm a "lumper" to the extent possible, and I didn't want to have a separate Master Source for each county. I just wanted one master source: "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002." (3) I must not have liked how the citation looked when I used the marriage template. Connie Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
