Jenny: I'd also use the SourceWriter Marriage template that you mentioned, but I see a nice feature about Connie's format in that it treats the title of the record set as the lead element whereas the SourceWriter template doesn't. The second example is part of a similar citation generated by SourceWriter.
"Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," database, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 Aug 2009) Bell County, Kentucky, Kentucky Marriage Records, 1852-1914; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 9:10 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on Sourcing of marriage record Connie Sheets wrote: > [My apologies that this won't thread properly, but I'm still having to > read the list in the archives]. > > The Missouri Marriage Record images at Ancestry are problematic, IMO, > because Ancestry has not given enough information as to what we are > looking at. Yes, they are apparently using State Archives microfilm > (they don't tell us which microfilm), but it is microfilm of record books > maintained at the county, and they don't tell us which record book. > Sometimes, it is possible by browsing through the images to figure it out, > and when it is, I include that. I ended up citing the database, not the > images per se, because it is such a mess. I used the generic online > database template. > 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 Soiurce 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 M Benson 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
