I still use a Basic Source for GRO indexes. I had a look at the templates suggested and they're clearly designed by people with little to no understanding of the indexes as they have fields for information never found in the index - like sub-district and Registration month whereas until quite recently it should be Registration quarter - and end up with "citing the GRO registration index" - which is surely the name of the source. Perhaps I'm too much of a lumper but since the GRO indexes are available in so many places both online and offline, I don't have a separate source for each place I can find it.
They also separate England and Wales whereas the system is the same for both. It may be better to use the generic online database template. Jenny why don't you put the two names in the fields available? One name in the Given Names field and the other preceded by & in the Surname field resulting in "entry for John Brown & Mary Smith"? Technically incorrect as there are two entries but anyone who knows the source, knows that and you could note that in a comment in the Master Source. Perhaps the intention is that you'd put in two sources, one for each party, as some other source is required to match the couple in the years before the other surname is included? Cathy Jenny M Benson wrote: > > On 20/04/2015 22:10, Marcus Harrod-Wild wrote: >> >> Can any UK users advise me what source template to use when citing a >> marriage index entry from the FreeBMD website? I cannot find a suitable >> source template for marriages in the source writer on Legacy although >> there are templates that work for both births and deaths. Any help would >> be much appreciated. Thank you. > > > I use Marriage records>Found in governmental records>Marriage > Certificate>England>Marriage Certificate Index>Online images. > > I'm not entirely happy with it because it only has fields for one > spouse's name so I often make use of the Override so that the citation > reads "entries for Joe Bloggs& Jane Doe ..." rather than "entry for Joe > Bloggs..." > > Not that I'm entirely happy about using Overrides, either. Somewhere > along the line, probably after an update or when my family had to > receive intensive care from the programmers, some time ago all my > Marriage Index Overrides were wiped out. I am still working to replace > them:-( 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
