Hi Cathy,
I saw Mark Tucker's video yesterday at
http://www.thinkgenealogy.com/better-online-citations/ and was very
impressed.
As a pretty new person to genealogy and to Legacy I must admit that I've
been surprised that we cannot easily download both sources and source
citations from the common web sites such as Family Search or Ancestry or
Footnote.
Maybe the next version of Legacy will include those features!
Brian
-Original Message-
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On
Behalf Of Cathy
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:11 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Can Genealogy Web Sites Make it Easier to Cite
Sources?
Dear Fellow LUG readers,
I read this interesting article this morning and realized that I
would love to have this feature as described in the article and the
video. However, I wonder how conceivable it would be to get web
sites like Ancestry, FamilySearch and others to agree to standardize
their source citations. Of course, how this would work on personal
web sites or USGenWeb sites was not mentioned. Only some commercial
web sites were discussed.
Article: Can Genealogy Web Sites Make it Easier to Cite Sources?
http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/insider/Can+Genealogy+Web+Sites+Make+
It+Easier+To+Cite+Sources.aspx
Right now, I spend time on including detailed source citations every
time I place a piece of data into my Legacy databases. My main rule
of thumb is one that I had leaned some years ago as an internal
auditor, namely, be sure that whoever reads your source citation can
use it alone to lead them back to the original
documentation. Because I have trained myself to do this, I don't
consider citing sources to be difficult but I know other genealogists
who do.
Of course, Legacy has two ways to cite sources which might be an
issue if web sites were ever to adopt this premise of Mark
Tucker. However, Tucker doesn't seem to think this would be a
problem as he mentioned that Legacy v7 would be able to accept a
download of a standard source citation today, if this feature were
available on web sites.
As I found this such an interesting idea, I thought that I would
pass the web link along to you LUG readers. What do you think?
Cathy
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