Paula, Please see below.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Paula Ryburn Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 4:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How do I cite this source? Ron, I have been mulling over your answer. I agreed with the idea of Joan using "online database" because the online database she was using contained a congomeration of data from many sources. However, if I'm reading your answer correctly (which I may not be!), you're saying because she found the data in an online database, she should use that template, right? Yes I get my census images from an online database (or at least online repository), but I don't use the online database template for sure. Likewise, state data. The answer was not necessarily intended to be prescriptive. I do not particularly accept the necessity for source standards. I use the templates for convenience only, and often leave fields empty or change their title. It is my view that as long as a source is clear, accurate and enables someone else to find the source then that is fine. Just because it's available online doesn't mean you should use the online database template, right? Not all sources which are on-line are in databases, so the answer is No". Or are you really just trying to clarify what to select for the "format" on any source template? I was answering a specific question for a particular record on a specific site I'm trying not to worry too much, but I don't want to record my sources in such a way as to be misleading to those who would come after me; don't want to cause them to not be able to find it themselves. Which is the correct approach, and much more important than bothering about whether a template is the 'correct one' - whatever that may mean! Thanks! No problem! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ----- Original Message ---- From: Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, October 12, 2011 4:34:23 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How do I cite this source? Joan, It would seem that you have a misapprehension regarding sourcing data. The format in which the original data was recorded is immaterial, the templates only require that you specify the format *from which you received the data*. In the case of the Weald website it is an on-line database (I haven't looked so I don't know if it contains images). Thus the template is one of the online databases. <snip> 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
