Paula,
The website location will be part of the Master Source citation and the detail
section will have the date accessed field.
Russ
From: Paula Ryburn
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:24 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions
There isn't a f
Michele,
I just found out about the LOC newspaper site myself, and it's incredible!
Unfortunately, there are only a limited number of newspapers for which
they have scanned copies of, but if you're lucky enough to have ancestors
where one of the papers were, you'll be amazed!
Tom
On Mon, Apr 30
Thanks, Terri. I have used the Library of Congress for other things but I
didn't know about the newspapers! I can't wait to look :)
Michele
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From: Terri Brown [mailto:ridge...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 7:41 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subje
Michele,
I had opportunity to use WorldVitalRecords through the Ohio Genealogical
Society. Granted, it was a limited access deal, but Ancestry and GenealogyBank
offer ***much*** more. I found a few things on WVR that weren't on Ancestry or
GenealogyBank but not too much. WVR may be a good opti
Right click on the tag number you wish to use and the box pops up where you
can add the description there.
George
From: Ed Allard
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 6:32 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Describing marriage tags
The Legacy Help file for Advanced Marriage Tagging
Paula -
I do enter the website in the proper places on the template - but for
any other "title" the only place I enter it is in the source index title.
For instance, I have started doing some of my 1940 Colorado families
since FamilySearch has now gotten those indexed and searchable. My
title wi
To me, it's not so much the quality of the image as the quality of the indexing. There are a multitude of errors in the previous census databases on Ancestry.com (and some in FamilySearch as well, but not as many I believe). FamilySearch is trying to use indexers who understand the batches they'r
I put them in the Location Notes, and whenever I go there I see them and
remember. Good Luck.
From: Marg Strong
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations again: Location at the time of the record?
When they send you a batch to index the above mentioned were pre-added to the
data. I have been asked about a half dozen times to add the number and/or the
A/B(?). It is about 2% IMHO. Nothing is perfect, but everyone is trying hard.
From: Paula Ryburn
To: Le
Elizabeth Shown Mills now offers the book as an e-book on her website. Her
website is a good resource anywhere and if you are on Facebook, Evidence
Explained has its own page and she posts all kinds of helpful info.
https://www.evidenceexplained.com/
michele
From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:paula.
I don't want to mislead anyone. It wasn't the World Vital Records site. I think
it was Archives.com.
>
> From: Marg Strong
>To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:04 PM
>Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] WorldVitalRecords
>
>
>I tried to do a
Thanks Richard. I've seen the option to use the double brackets noted before,
but with my memory, the more I see it mentioned the more likely I'll remember
when I need it!
>
> From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES
>To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
>Sent: Monday, April 3
Thanks for the example, Michele. I'm working with a census record right now
that has a district listed and no county.
>
> From: Michele Lewis
>To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:02 PM
>Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations again: L
Since each location has on its 'page' room enough to list different names/dates
for this place, you could use [[ ]] to hide as needed.
From: Marg Strong
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 12:25 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Locations ag
I think it might be easier to confine myself to one online database for my
research. ;)
I find it interesting that the images in 1940 would be of different quality
between Ancestry and FamilySearch - didn't they all receive the same image set
from NARA?
Maybe if the image is particularly bad in the
Still, I can have only one repository per master source.
--Paula
From:R G Strong-genes
To:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Mon, April 30, 2012 11:01:46 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions
That’s why I also create and use the repos
Thanks, Jenny. Option (2) would be to have a second "duplicate" master source
for those images found on a second website. *ugh*
"You're welcome" on opening up the "pages vs. sheets" can of worms! ;) On some
of the older censuses, I have seen MULTIPLE hand-written page numbers. Once
they start
Jackie, Are you saying you just don't enter the website in your master source
for census? Just double-checking my understanding. I see that as option (1).
--Paula
From:Jackie King
To:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Sun, April 29, 2012 5:57:21 PM
Subje
Purchasing this book is on my "to-do" list... rapidly moving to the top, I might
add. ;)
Thanks,
--Paula
From:R G Strong-genes
To:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Mon, April 30, 2012 10:51:20 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions
Do y
I should definitely have included the word "online" at the end of my second
sentence.
I don't anticipate going to the library to look at microfilm for the US census
images as long as I have my computer.
But I am recording the roll #. ;)
--Paula
From:R G Strong-
Yes, I understand that, especially since I began indexing the 1940 census
pages/sheets and of course they call them "batches"!
There appear to have been different reasons for assigning page numbers, so that
the page consisting of sheets 1A and 1B is not always page 1.
Not to mention
There isn't a field for the website location at the detail level when using the
SW template for the 1940 census.
--Paula
From:Randy Clark
To:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Sun, April 29, 2012 5:47:54 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questi
There is a notes section in the master location list. You can to actually click
on a location to see the notes box. It is huge right under where the short
location goes.
I am not familiar with Canada locations but South Carolina was also divided
into Districts and that is how I write it. I pu
When you go to the Master List for Locations, there is an edit box. Pick a
location, hit the edit button and you have place to make corrections AND
place to put notes. I use this all the time for my history of area.
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Marg Strong wrote:
> Scratch that last questio
Scratch that last question. I just found the place for notes in the master
location list. Should have known Legacy would have it covered!
>
> From: Marg Strong
>To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:25 PM
>Subject: [LegacyUG] Locat
Please refresh my memory. I know it's important to record the location as it
was during the time the record was taken. For example I have some that were
listed (by ancestry.com) as being in Carleton, Ontario; and Carleton, Ottawa
Ontario. This is what a search showed me:
Carleton County was est
Thank you for the clarification David. I tried to verify from the news
letter that I had received, but apparently I deleted it. My apologies to
all for any confusion that I may have created.
On Monday, April 30, 2012, David C Abernathy wrote:
> Check out http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story
I tried to do a search to see if they might have records of interest. Free
trials mean giving credit card numbers and remembering to cancel in time. The
only search I could find was for USA states records. I sent an email to ask if
there was a link to look for the records of other countries. The
When I checked the comparison site it seemed that Archives.com had more focus
on the UK and Denmark than ancestry (thought that might have been
proportionately to all their records. It was a lot less expensive so I thought
I might try it when my ancestry subscription is up. LOL
>
Check out http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=151399633
It is Archives.com that ancestry is buying not World Vital Records.
Thanks,
David C Abernathy
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On 4/30/2012 11:50 AM, d wrote:
> I have solved part of my mystery, but I st
For anyone interested, based on a news letter that I received the
other day, Ancestry.Com is buying World Vital Records.
Ron Bernier
Woonsocket, RI
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Kathy Meyer wrote:
> I always wonder the same thing. If they have a free 'trial' it would be
> worth browsing to
On 4/30/2012 11:16 AM, Michele Lewis wrote:
> I have Ancestry and
> GenealogyBank. Is it worth it to me to get WorldVitalRecords?
I googled it and found some interesting info
worldvitalrecords vs ancestry.com
Tim Rosenlof
Legacy User Group guidelines:
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.
I have never subscribed to World Vital Records, but my impression is that it
is more US inclined than anywhere else.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
"Kathy Meyer" wrote:
>I always wonder the same thing. If they have a free 'trial' it would be
>worth browsing to see if their collection
Since I received a mailing from LEGACY about a discount on
WorldVitalRecords, I don't think this is off topic :) I have Ancestry and
GenealogyBank. Is it worth it to me to get WorldVitalRecords? What unique
collections do they have? Most of my research is in the US with some in
Germany. I have
That is the way I do it too. I hit the edit button and change just the name of
the county (and state if need be). This is one way to make sure you are 100%
consistent on how you format everything. You can only do this for the same
year census though! You can’t bring up a 1850 and then edit i
I have also found that the wording of the source from either of them usually
are worded different so when I create the master source I can usually tell
where it was from.
Russ
From: Michele Lewis
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 6:46 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] 194
I too create the master source at the county level and I create another master
source for the new county. So I don’t have to repeat everything I go to one
that I previously used (must have someone using it already) and click edit fill
in the particulars for the new one then click Save and choose
That’s why I also create and use the repository that I used!
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From: Michele Lewis
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 6:34 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions
This is a good question. Legacy’s templates have “blan
amen!!
From: Michele Lewis
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 6:03 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions
The page number is important in conjunction with the COUNTY not the enumeration
district. There is only one page 122 in Lamar County, Missis
Do you have the book “Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts
to Cyberspace” by Elizabeth Shown Mills"? I would recommend this book to anyone
who is serious about citing their sources properly, as she is considered by the
genealogy community to be the expert and the person who
Not True if you go to the library and want to find that particular person and
you know that information you will need the roll # and then you can go to that
page# instead of scrolling through them all.
Russ
From: Paula Ryburn
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:10 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.c
Paula,
The reason for the sheet numbers where that they where I believe two sided
sheets numbered in sequence as they used them and the page numbers where
usually stamped or written on the front of the sheet thus when citing you would
cite p 1 sh 1B for the second side of that page. The reason f
What I do if I cannot read that stamped or written page number is go forward or
backward in the images and see which one it is to determine what page I am
looking at.
Russ
From: Paula Ryburn
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:14 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 cen
You are asking why a government agency created redundancy?
Rich in LA CA
From: Paula Ryburn
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 1940 census template questions
Thank you everyone for your answers. I
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