I do this on Ancestry.com all the time. The surname list is far from "computer generated", it still takes a person to transcribe. So yes, the spelling they may come up with, that lands in the index database, maybe off. But it's still a far leep from scanning through the images by hand one at a time. I've done the scan thing with some of the non-indexed census images on ancestry, its painful but can be fruitful (thank god for broadband too).
As for the source citation bit, if you made the master sources the upper most level of a public record, like say a census, then every time you cited that source, you'd need to fill in all of the extra details. And I know I like to tag sources on as many individuals and events as they possibly apply to. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Sipe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:23 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] RE:Microfilm census > > Hi Bill; > <Am I missing something? Are you under the impression that the census > <information I'm getting from ancestry.com and genealogy.com is from > <"databases"? The pages one sees on these sites are photographs of the > <microfilm pages. > > If you are finding your people on the photo copy databases then it probably > isn't necessary to redo the search at NARA. If you can't read the film or > more of what I have had to deal with is when you don't find the family on > those web cites due to spelling complications, then going to the film is > necessary. I have to many times had to go and read the county because I > know they are there but the computer genereated surname lists created a > spelling that I was unable to come up with in order to find the family. > Missing families in the search can be a major problem. > > karen > > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
