Running Gramps 6.1, but have a generic question about citations. If you get a source citation from FamilySearch or Ancestry, but it’s a reference to the US Census, with an image, what is the Repository, Source and Citation?
Thanks,
-Kevin
My view
An example from UK
1841 Census
Repository National Archive Kew
Source 19841 England & Wales Census
Citation PRO Ref HO107, Piece 181, Book 4,Folio 10, Page 15
Ancestry & and such are not Repositories they are Publishers but there is no function like that in GRAMPS. I could use Author but I don’t probably put of laziness and the fact that the word Author has an implication of creativity about a work and Websites are not creatives.
phil
So if you got all that from an online source, you would not have a reference to it anywhere?
I read somewhere that the concesus was to put the URL in the Volume/Page field.
Thanks for the reply,
Kevin
Do not believe there was any consensus on the topic I merely explained how I do it.
URL’s are vapourware and liable to change and vanish altogether so I avoid using them like the plague.
I was taught the citation should point directly to the source in the most concise way possible and be comprehensible to the archivist responsible for the collection.
How you acquire a copy of this information is not relevant unless of course you are breaching someone’s copyright and you intend to publish your tree.
phil
I set the Repository to the location I get the information. For a U.S. census I always use Ancestry except for 1950 which I also take from FS.
For the Source, I add where the site got its information in the Publisher field.
The Citation’s Vol/Page field holds the page information; largest to smallest fact.
