Jenny, I will jump into Michele's post, which is the same as her's. Maybe its our age <grin>
You already know my answer. It the same as Michele's. I go to the 'actual source', and you can give the webpage credit. It is a tool, not the source. I can show you some of my Swedish Source/citation off list if you wish. Tim Rosenlof On the road again On 9/27/2012 9:29 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: > I am a bit unorthodox here. If I can copy the newspaper page to my hard drive > I treat it as though I have seen the paper myself (and I have!). My > citations look like this: > > "Funeral Services for John A. Horne to be Held Today," The Augusta Chronicle, > 26 Oct 1941, p. 9A, col. 5. [the name of the paper is in italics] > > This is the format that you would use for a clipping. The reason I do it > this way is that it doesn't matter WHERE I got this from, GenealogyBank, > Newspaper Archives, Library of Congress etc. If someone needs a copy they > know the EXACT newspaper page. It wouldn't take very long to find a > repository that had it. I try to make my citations as brief as possible > (while still including all of the elements) so that they are easier to read. > > Michele > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Tricky citation > > I use SourceWriter but am not sure how to handle this one. > > Through my membership of a particular library I am able to access the > archives of 3 different newspapers. I have to log into the library's website > and then log into ProQuest from there, using my library member's number. > > The Newspapers>online images (issued by unrelated content provider) template > seems appropriate and fairly straightforward, but at the Master level it asks > only for State & City (presumably where the newspaper was originally > published), the title of the paper and the format. At Detail level, in > addition to details of the particular article, it has fields for website > title, URL and Collection. That's where it gets tricky! > > Do I name the Library's homepage in Website title or more specifically the > URL for the "online content" page or even more specifically the URL for the > ProQuest-accessed-via-a-library log-on page? (The latter is long and > complex.) Or do I ignore the Library part altogether and just cite ProQuest > as the Source and use their "direct access" log-on URL? > Another alternative would be give ProQuest as the website title and omit the > URL altogether! > > I'm not absolutely hung up on using exactly the right template and filling > all the available fields with exactly what they ask for, but I do like to try > and get my citations to be accurate, consistent and reasonably > professional-looking. > -- > 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 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
