This is a good question. Legacy’s templates have “blanks” for all of the stuff you are supposed to cite. One of those “blanks” is for WHERE you accessed the record. You want to say if it was a FHL microfilm, or a FamilySearch image, or an Ancestry image etc. One reason was discussed today on the Association of Professional Genealogists email list. It was actually being discussed in reference to a different topic but it applies here. The different “repositories” treat the images differently. They enhance them to make them more clear and readable. Each one has their own way of doing this.
Let’s say I access the census on Ancestry and I see a name like this… Williams, James. But, let’s say someone else looked at it at FamilySearch. Because the image was enhanced differently a faint “on” shows up at the end of the name so now we have Williamson, James It can make a difference so you need to direct people back to the exact image that you examined. Michele From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 6:18 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions I spoke too soon! ;) When looking for things in the currently unindexed 1940 census, I have mostly used the stevemorse.org website. Once you get to the ED, this site gives you your choice of "viewers"........... NARA, FamilySearch, Ancestry, plus 3 more. I honestly don't remember which one I used to view this image that I am trying to cite!!! For those of you who "lump" AT ALL, what do you do if you find one page for a county (the level at which I lump) on ancestry and another on familysearch and another the NARA? In the particular case of Federal Census records, is it really important to cite the website through which you viewed the records? --P 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
