How to cite sources on Ancestry.com?
I’ve recently joined Ancestry.com and I’m in the process of building a family tree there, using the information that I already have. In some cases, I can just connect a person to the source (say, census records) via a link. But some of my European data was obtained using the LDS microfilmed church records. Is there a correct way to cite those records as a source?
Format varies, but the main purpose of the citation is two-fold; first, it shows you were not just recording family legend, and second, it lets those who wish to verify or amplify your research look at where you got it, just to make sure you didn’t see “1842″ but type “1824″.
(By “amplify”, I mean if you and I were 7th cousins, you found the baptism record for your ancestor, who ran away to join the circus and never looked back, and I saw it, and all of my line stayed right there on the farm, plowing in the spring and eating turnips all winter, I could probably find their records in the source you used.)
Something like “Throckmorton-on-the-Marsh Parrish registers, Shropshire, England, 1682 – 1714, LDS Family History Library Film #123456″ would be reasonable, to my mind. If you added “Frame 17″ you’d be going the extra mile.
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