I wish to once and for all establish a set way of entering some of my source
data and would appreciate some feedback from the list. I have been an
adherent of Elizabeth Shown Mills since the get-go; however, she has
recently changed much of her philosophy on entering sources, and I choose
not to reinvent all of my master sources and the attendant hundreds of
source details in order to comply with her latest methodology. I plan to
establish my own system based upon what works best for me. That said - I
have many State and U.S. census records, and it works well for me to list
them as follows:
Source Name: Iowa, Plymouth County, Remsen - Census (U.S.) - 1900
Author: Plymouth County, Iowa
Title: 1900 U.S. Census, population schedule
Detail Information: J. M. Doe household, City of LeMars, 4th Ward,
enumeration district 138, supervisor's district 3, page 383A (stamped), 16
(penned), 4th Street, house 1414, dwelling 156, family 187. The detail on
all of the members of the household goes in the Detail Text template.
Problem: I *may* have four different resources for any one of these
censuses for the various people in that area - Family History Library,
Heritage Quest, Ancestry.com, and the National Archives. Setting up a
separate source for each resource entity would make for an unwieldy number
of entries for each census. But, entering all of the data in the source
detail gets dicey because the Detail Information field is limited in number
of characters. By the time I put the census page specifics there, plus the
fact that the record comes from Ancestry.Com or wherever (and include their
URL), plus the mention that the images are from National Archives microfilm,
XXX, roll XXX - I run out of space.
1. Could some kind sole give me an example of how specifically they would
source the 1900 census above (including where specifically to place the
information), given it was obtained from Ancestry.com whose records are
images of National Archives microfilms?
2. And who is the Repository? Is it the National Archives from whence the
original data comes? If the Repository is where I actually obtained the data
(Ancestry or whomever), then it would be necessary to set up a separate
source for each entity.
Hope this makes sense. I try not to make my sourcing complicated; however,
I do like to know exactly how I obtained the information. Makes life easier
for me in the long run.
Thanks,
Kay Fordham
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