On 14/09/2010 06:30, Tony Rolfe wrote: > I recently spent a day at the Museum of Wigan Life and searched their > microfiche. I found the baptism of William CAREY in the St. John's > Church microfiche and have made a printed copy of the appropriate page. > > My question is "what is the correct way to source this?". > > I can think of 3 possibilities > > 1) As a church record. It was, originally, a baptism entry in the parish > Registers > 2) As a Government record - The Museum is the holder of the microfiche > and is a government body > 3) As my private papers - I hold the document which I am using as the > evidence. > > I suspect that option 1 is correct, but would be interested to hear the > "correct" way to do this. > I would definitely use 1.
If you are using SourceWriter, that would be Church Records>Church Record Books>created at local level>Microfilm/fiche. That is the exact record which you viewed and from which you extracted information. There are fields on the template for describing where and by whom the microfiche is held. Both options 2 and 3 are invalid for the same reasons: neither you nor the Government created the original record and a scan/film/fiche of an original is near enough an indisputable source as the original, I would say. If you now know that John Smith was baptised on 01 January 1830 you did not get that information from the Government or from a piece of paper you hold in your hand but to all intents and purposes from the original Church record. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
