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When a historical record collection can be searched, the derivative type is “database,” “index,” or similar term. When a collection has digital images, “digital images” is the type of the derivative. Consider this citation to the death certificate of former president, Lyndon Baines Johnson: | When a historical record collection can be searched, the derivative type is “database,” “index,” or similar term. When a collection has digital images, “digital images” is the type of the derivative. Consider this citation to the death certificate of former president, Lyndon Baines Johnson: | ||
:<nowiki> 1. “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database and digital images, ''FamilySearch.org'' (http://www.familysearch.org : accessed 5 December 2009), search for Lyndon Baines Johnson, died 22 January 1973; death certificate 00340, Bexar County, Texas Bureau of Vital Statistics, Department of Health, 1100 West 49th Street, Austin, Texas.</nowiki> | |||
Notice the different parts of the citation: | |||
*The name of the collection is in quotes, like a chapter title. | *The name of the collection is in quotes, like a chapter title. | ||
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Keep the changing nature of the web in mind as you create citations to online sources. Because web addresses change, it is better to cite the home page plus finding instructions. The upcoming changes to FamilySearch.org are a case in point. Earlier this year, the address of Johnson’s death certificate was | Keep the changing nature of the web in mind as you create citations to online sources. Because web addresses change, it is better to cite the home page plus finding instructions. The upcoming changes to FamilySearch.org are a case in point. Earlier this year, the address of Johnson’s death certificate was | ||
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage;c=1320964;r=36519114;role=principal | :http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage;c=1320964;r=36519114;role=principal | ||
That address no longer works. It changed to | That address no longer works. It changed to | ||
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=fs:1320964&r=r_17727274&pn=p1 | :http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage&c=fs:1320964&r=r_17727274&pn=p1 | ||
Once all records on the RecordSearch Pilot are moved over to beta FamilySearch.org, that address will also stop working. The address (as I write this) on the beta is | Once all records on the RecordSearch Pilot are moved over to beta FamilySearch.org, that address will also stop working. The address (as I write this) on the beta is | ||
http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2F10.249.2.228%3A8080%2Frsda%2Fark%3A%2Ffs.r%2Fr36519114%2Fp1&hash=iKoaPmN5qiaItKHSK0Vx1EZ6rR8%253D | :http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/s/recordDetails/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2F10.249.2.228%3A8080%2Frsda%2Fark%3A%2Ffs.r%2Fr36519114%2Fp1&hash=iKoaPmN5qiaItKHSK0Vx1EZ6rR8%253D | ||
This address will also stop working when the beta is complete. | This address will also stop working when the beta is complete. | ||
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The source of the source is even more important for databases without images. When a database does not have images, you cannot tell if there are indexing errors. The source of the source citation in the following example tells you where to get a photocopy of the original record. | The source of the source is even more important for databases without images. When a database does not have images, you cannot tell if there are indexing errors. The source of the source citation in the following example tells you where to get a photocopy of the original record. | ||
:<nowiki> 2. “Idaho Marriages, 1842-1996,” ''Ancestry.com'' (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 July 2010), search for Alonzo Raymond, married 1922; from “Upper Snake River Family History Center and Ricks College (Rexburg, Idaho),” citing “marriage book at the County Courthouse located in Bannock Co., ID in Volume 11 on Page 55.”</nowiki> | |||
Unlike the Texas Death example, this source of the source shows the typical practice. Simply “specify whatever the database gives as its source.”<ref>Mills, ''Evidence Explained'', 301.</ref> | |||
= Entering Citations in nFS = | = Entering Citations in nFS = | ||
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*Make use of the browser’s drop down list of past entries.<ref name="Grant" /> | *Make use of the browser’s drop down list of past entries.<ref name="Grant" /> | ||
*Copy and paste frequent sources from a separate document.<ref name="Grant" /> | *Copy and paste frequent sources from a separate document.<ref name="Grant" /> | ||
*Enter sources for the individual rather than for each event.<ref name="Grant">Kathy Grant, “Entering Sources in nFS -- Tips and Improvements,” ''FHCNET'', Yahoo discussion group, (<nowiki>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET</nowiki> : [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET/message/27009 5 June 2010, 8:17 pm], accessed 18 July 18, 2010).</ref> | *Enter sources for the individual rather than for each event.<ref name="Grant">Kathy Grant, “Entering Sources in nFS -- Tips and Improvements,” ''FHCNET'', Yahoo discussion group, (&amp;amp;amp;lt;nowiki&amp;amp;amp;gt;http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET&amp;amp;amp;lt;/nowiki&amp;amp;amp;gt; : [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET/message/27009 5 June 2010, 8:17 pm], accessed 18 July 18, 2010).</ref> | ||
*Enter limited information.<ref>Gary Templeman, ''FHCNET'' ([http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET/message/27011 6 June 2010, 2:57 am]); Venita Roylance, Ibid. ([http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET/message/27021 6 June 2010, 5:36 pm]).</ref> | *Enter limited information.<ref>Gary Templeman, ''FHCNET'' ([http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET/message/27011 6 June 2010, 2:57 am]); Venita Roylance, Ibid. ([http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET/message/27021 6 June 2010, 5:36 pm]).</ref> | ||
*Enter citations into the notes so you can format as desired and synchronize with desktop genealogy data.<ref>Gaylon Findlay, ''FHCNET'' ([http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET/message/27025 6 June 2010, 8:23 pm]).</ref> | *Enter citations into the notes so you can format as desired and synchronize with desktop genealogy data.<ref>Gaylon Findlay, ''FHCNET'' ([http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FHCNET/message/27025 6 June 2010, 8:23 pm]).</ref> | ||