> > When you have a digital image of a vital record, the SW prompts you > through the documenting the website source of the image, collection > name, yada, yada, yada. You are also prompted to put in the date you > accessed the website. So here’s the question: what if you received the > image from a friend or family member? The birth certificate image or > census image may originally have come from Ancestry or HeritageQuest or > maybe even ScotlandsPeople, but YOU are not the person who accessed the > website. How then do you cite the digital image of the record if you got > it secondhand? As far as I can tell from the book, you’re supposed to > source your source (the individual) as well as the real source of the > digital image (the website vendor). I’m just not sure how to construct > the source citation to show that. And what if you don’t know the source > of your source, but you have a census image or a vital record image in > front of you?
I usually add a Comment to the effect that the image was supplied by X. You can add a Source Comment or a Detail Comment, or both, whichever you deem appropriate. > > And finally, once I’ve figured out the output format I’m supposed to > have, how do I get that result in Legacy? You don't need to worry about the format because Legacy does all the formatting for you. If you are using SourceWriter just fill in whatever fields are appropriate (*) and you will see a Preview of the output as you go along. This may also happen with Basic Sourcing but it's been so long since I've used that, I've forgotten! (*) Probably a good idea to remind people again that you do not necessarily need to fill in EVERY field, nor even worry about a field name possibly not describing the data you are entering into that field. > -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
