Re: [Gramps-users] Another of those pesky "How To" type questions....

[Michael L. <mic...@pc...>]

On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 01:04:04 AM Michael C Tiernan wrote:
> 
> I have an entry for my paternal grandmother.
> The confirmation of her name, her marriage to my grandfather, and the names
> of her parents, her DOB, and other associated facts comes from a page from
> the familysearch.org website. I took a screenshot of the page and have
> that saved as an image on disk.
> 
> I might be less assured of the stability of the overall world wide web than
> most which is why I have my own copy of this document now. (Printed and in
> a notebook of course.)
> 
> Now the meat of the question....
> 
> When entering the 'source' for the associated facts, such as creating
> entries for her parents, is it wiser to cite the 'online' source or my
> document? And if the answer is my document, is there a "best practices"
> way of doing it?
> 
Here is my take:  The source is the LDS church collection referred to on the 
site, for example "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ".  The familysearch.org 
website and you local document are two repositories of that source material.

Note also that the material is a secondary source, being a transcription (they 
call it an extraction) of the original source which would have been a parish 
register.  So we have a transcription of a secondary source which is itself a 
collection of images of primary source documents.

I am preparing to revise all my sources and repositories to reflect this as 
previously I had the IGI (the predecessor to the current site) as a source.

The key is that a souce is an "object" (virtual or real) which is stored in a 
repository which may be a website, a folder on your computer, your bookshelf 
or the mind of a relative.

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Michael Lightfoot
Canberra, Australia
OPC Merther, St Breock & Egloshayle, Cornwall
see http://www.cornwall-opc.org
mic...@pc...
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