Just catching up on summer threads (been mending from a broken arm), so late to this party. Great thread, Jenny! What it brings to mind, though, is an earlier discussion of (for example) US Census records, images of which can be found online at at least three major websites here. The previous discussion concluded that if you are using the SW templates, then you would need three Master Sources for each Census -- one each for HeritageQuest, Ancestry, and FamilySearch. Considering the posts on THIS thread that talked about how transient this internet stuff is, I may just go back to one Master Source for each Census and somehow (if the spirit moves me?) figure out how to put the website URL at the detail level. Of course, the citations would all have the film, roll, etc. to find the person of interest, no matter what website is providing the images online in the future. Thoughts? (When I say "each Census" I refer to whatever level of lumping one may have chosen; I do US/year/State/County.) --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams
________________________________ From: Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Thu, June 28, 2012 11:23:15 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Citing website sources There has been some discussion here recently about whether or not/how to cite website URLs and related matters. What I am never quite sure about is how to handle situations where a citation one has created in the past is no longer *quite* accurate. For example, for quite a while it was possible to access records from a FamilySearch site for which the URL was http://search.labs/familysearch.org. That URL is no longer valid but it is possible to access the same records from www.familysearch.org. Similarly, Ancestry used to have a database entitled "England & Wales, Birth Index:1837-1983" and one entitled "England & Waes, Birth Index: 1984-2005". Then all those records were combined into one database called "England & Wales, Birth Index:1916-2005." I could give several other similar examples. So what does one do about one's citations? Just update the title of the database or the URL of the website and carry on using the same Master Sources, or create a new Master Source every time there is a subtle change in the details? If one of the main purposes of a Source is to allow others to replicate my research, they aren't going to be able to do that if they try and access http://search.labs/familysearch.org. On the other hand, if I say I accessed a record on www.familysearch.org on 15 May 2008 people might be very mistrustful of anything I say knowing that that must be a lie! -- 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/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
