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From: Harold Henderson <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Citatinitis
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 14:45:19 -0500
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Linda --

I have no objection to line numbers, and I would use them too (if I
remembered!) where the preferable dwelling/family numbers are absent or
illegible.

On Ancestry, I don't have any trouble telling how an entry is
indexed/transcribed, regardless of how I got to it. Some days it seems like
online providers are determined to crowd out or cover up the original record
with their interpretations!

Harold

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM, <> wrote:

> Ah, but if you found James because you were searching for his daughter,
> Bella, would you then go back and figure out how to search for James?
> Or if you found James because he was on the same page, or nearby pages,
> to his cousin, Sam.
>
> This happens more than I would have ever imagined.
>
> :-)
>
> Linda
> ____________
> Linda Gardner
> Massachusetts
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: [TGF] Citatinitis
> > From: "Elissa Scalise Powell, CG" <>
> > Date: Fri, September 03, 2010 3:01 pm
> > To: "'Transitional Genealogists Forum Mailing List'"
> > <>
> >
> >
> > If you searched for first name James, born 1850 in England in a certain
> > place you expected him in a certain census, then when you clicked the
> > surname Vond on your pick from a list of these James' because that is
> close
> > to the James Bond you are looking for, you will have come to the search
> by a
> > different route but the transcribed index entry would still say Vond. I
> > don't make a note of it for the next person but for myself in the
> citation
> > as to what the direct route is so I don't have to go the circuitous way
> > again.
> >
> > -- Elissa
> >
> > Elissa Scalise Powell, CG
> > www.PowellGenealogy.com
> > CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for
> > Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants
> > after periodic evaluations by the Board.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: On Behalf Of
> > > Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 2:48 PM
> > >
> > > I used to think that I should record the index entry, even if I had
> > > never used it (the index entry), and then I found myself spending a lot
> > > of time trying to figure out exactly how someone appeared in the index
> > > in order to access the record by that route. It seemed
> > > counterproductive. I don't know if I can afford to be that courteous.
> > <g>
> >
>
>
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--
Harold Henderson
Research and Writing from NW Indiana
midwestroots.net

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