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From: Harold Henderson <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Bread crumb trail in a Web citation
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:11:15 -0600
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And some days it's like a self-replenishing bottomless can of worms!

Harold

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:06 PM, <> wrote:

> 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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--
Harold Henderson
Research and Writing from NW Indiana
Professional genealogy in and around Chicago -- Rockford to Fort Wayne,
Muskegon to Indianapolis
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