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Subject: Re: [TGF] Bread crumb trail in a Web citation
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:06:33 -0600
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Peggy wrote:
>>I have been looking for a citation format that will allow me to put a
bread crumb trail in the citation. Like page 1 > page 2> page 3. I think
I've seen something like that, but I have been through EE and various
resources and haven't found anything.

Patti responded:
>Peggy, I saw that style for a FamilySearch citation example for the WWII
Draft Registration cards. Even though I like the idea, the rest of the
citation wasn't good. Nothing that told you what microfilm it came from.
Like Ancestry, the citation only led you to believe that FamilySearch was
the source. I was going to add something "proper" once I found the
microfilm numbers, but hadn't gotten around to it yet.




Patti
Are you referring to an EE citation or one elsewhere?

Elizabeth

P.S.
I might also add a word of caution about the concept of identifying, on our
own, the exact FHL microfilm for a FamilySearch image that does not cite the
film. There are many cases in which FHL microfilm has similar content with
overlapping dates, on different rolls of film, and a catalog entry that we
think might cover a particular image may not do so.

This whole business of citing sources is a can of worms, isn't it? :)


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Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
The Evidence Series

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