Well, it's not actually the Sources which have shifted, but the names of Collections change and/or Search methods change and I'm wondering how other LUGgers handle this.
Here's an example which illustrates exactly what I mean. In the Good Old Days when searching FindMyPast for a marriage in the English county of Cheshire one could select "Parish Records" from a a menu, then select the tab for Marriages and then enter the search parameters. I set up a SourceWriter Source (using the template for Church Record Books created at local level, online images) called Parish Registers - FMP. I put the website details into the Master Source and entered "Parish Records Collection" in the Collection field. The name of the specific Church and its location and whether the record is from PRs or BTs and whether a Baptism, Marriage or Burial, I included in the Source Detail. Now the FindMyPast site has been completely re-vamped and the easiest and quickest way to find a marriage in Cheshire is to use the All Records list to select either Diocese of Chester Parish Registers of Marriages or Diocese of Chester Bishhop's Transcripts of Marriages. There is no longer a facility to search "Parish Records" generally. So, the question is this: would you continue to use the "Parish Registers - FMP" template and have any following-on researcher muddle through to find the same record which I did, or would you set up a new Master Source for the specific Collection (and corresponding new Sources for the Baptism and Burials Collections, PRs and BTs in each case and for each County)? And supposing you create a new set of Master Sources, would you update all your old citations to the new Sources or leave them as they are? I think I know what Elizabeth Shown Mills would say, but I am not asking what is RIGHT, but what do most people actually do?! -- 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
