I agree with Christine, and like your advice to call Ancestry.com a
repository. Great!
Helen
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Thanks so much for your advice, Joe. Calling Ancestry.com the repository has
cleared up much of my confusion!
Christine
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You will need both pieces of information if you were to actually find the
record in the National Archives which is the primary source. I list
Ancestry.com as the repository. Ancestry likes to muddy the waters by adding
their name to everything when all they are is a repsitory and not the
primary source.
Some may not consider this proper, but since Ancestry is a for profit
sourceI find it better to list the original source if future generations
need to find it. Ancestry may go out of business someday the National
Archives shouldn't :).
Your primary source would be:
World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582
rolls.
The detail of the source would be:
RegistrationLocation: Lake County, Illinois; Roll: 1614032; Draft Board: 2
When it prints out you will get something like:
World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.
Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582
rolls. RegistrationLocation: Lake County, Illinois; Roll: 1614032; Draft
Board: 2.
Joe
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From: Christine mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 2:32 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Advice on entering source information
Hi all. I'm new to Legacy and am having some trouble entering my source
information, despite looking at examples I've found on the internet.
For example, I found cemetery records on the Waupaca county, Wisconsin
GenWeb site (http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/). It is part of the
WIGenWeb, which in turn is part of the USGenWeb project. The Waupaca site is
maintained by Paula Vaughan.
On the Cemeteries page it says, The Waupaca County cemeteries were read by
Wayne and Alta Guyant in the 1970's. The Guyant Collection includes a
general index which also includes veteran and maiden names with each
cemetery of Portage, Waupaca and Waushara Counties and have been
mircofilmed. You may be able to obtain the microfilm through your local
library and the interlibrary loan system OR your local Family History
Library. The information following each cemetery under the heading of
Microfilm Information gives you the Family History Library number of the
film on which the said cemetery is listed.
If I then go to my cemetery of interest, Lakeside Memorial Park, it states,
Thank you to the City of Waupaca for permitting the Lakeside Memorial Park
sexton records to be posted. This listing is complete through 2005.
The information for the people I'm researching is all there, which I do
understand will go into the Detail section of the source citation - however,
that's getting ahead of myself!
When I create a new Master Source in Legacy, what information goes where?
For example:
Source List Name Wisconsin, Waupaca County GenWeb
Type Internet
AuthorPaula Vaughan
Title Waupaca County, Wisconsin History and
Genealogical Website (italicise)
Publication facts http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/
OR.is the transcription from the cemetery the focus of the source, and the
repository is the Waupca GenWeb?
Next, I'm a wee bit confused about citing information I find at
Ancestry.com. For example, I found a record and the scanned image for a WWI
draft registration card. Under the details for the individual it says:
Source Citation: Registration Location: Lake County, Illinois; Roll:
1614032; Draft Board: 2.
It then says:
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database
on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original
data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service
System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls.
Again, in Legacy, what is the focus of the source and where does all this
information go?
Any specific examples would be greatly appreciated!!
Cheers,
Christine
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