I’ve been trying to figure out the answer to a sourcing question and have not been able to figure out the answer through the SourceWriter templates or through flipping through my copy of Evidence Explained, so I thought I’d ask here and see if someone else knows the answer.
When you have a digital image of a vital record, the SW prompts you through the documenting the website source of the image, collection name, yada, yada, yada. You are also prompted to put in the date you accessed the website. So here’s the question: what if you received the image from a friend or family member? The birth certificate image or census image may originally have come from Ancestry or HeritageQuest or maybe even ScotlandsPeople, but YOU are not the person who accessed the website. How then do you cite the digital image of the record if you got it secondhand? As far as I can tell from the book, you’re supposed to source your source (the individual) as well as the real source of the digital image (the website vendor). I’m just not sure how to construct the source citation to show that. And what if you don’t know the source of your source, but you have a census image or a vital record image in front of you? And finally, once I’ve figured out the output format I’m supposed to have, how do I get that result in Legacy? Thanks in advance for the help. cheers, Kirsty Haining Seattle, Washington J 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
