Paula - Just a couple of comments on a couple of your questions. Online images sometimes do not remain static. It may be image 300 today - and later if the company that is hosting it changes something - it may become image 400. By citing the basics, almost anyone can find what they are looking for on almost any site.
And yes there was microfilm - NARA spent the last two or three years digitizing it so that the digitizations would be good ones. If you remember back 10 years ago when each company was digitizing there own, the quality varied from site to site. Part of the NARA digitization process was checking for quality to make sure each image was readable. And one thing I have not heard many complaints about so far this go around is the quality of the images. Jackie On 4/29/2012 4:01 PM, Paula Ryburn wrote: > Thank you everyone for your answers. I do see a number stamped on > this page, but it is smeared and illegible (and *4* digits on sheet > 2A???). I will look for the roll #. I have seen the Ancestry source > information (lists both itself and the NARA). Hmm... > > The more I thought about this topic, the more I wondered about this > particular census... > > Did they make microfilm? Or just go straight to digital? Since there > are roll numbers, I guess they did make microfilm. > > Why are there page numbers in addition to the sheet numbers? 1A > (lines 1-40) and 1B (lines 41-80) make up page 1. Why would they need > another page number? Is it the slide number on the microfilm roll? > > Within Legacy: > If I select "microfilm" as the medium in the SW template, I can see > why I would be prompted for the roll and page. > However, if I select "online images" as the medium, the roll # and > page # have no bearing on how to find my source. I mean, if you are > using my citation to find what I found (purpose of the citation, > right?), you don't need the roll # and page #. > > --Paula > > 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
