Dear Eve, I would always try to cite the original source rather than the fact it was digitized and placed on the internet. If you think about any census, you would cite the year and whether it was a federal/national/state census, then the enumeration district (or equivalent) and sheet or page and line number. You don't have to cite a URL. Same thing for any original printed document, a map, or a book, etc, simply city the author, title year and publisher or ISBN. As for a transcribed document, I would probably still want to cite the original document. The only one which would cause me to scratch my head a bit are the online indices that are only available that way because there never was a printed version in the first place. Jeremy -- Jeremy G Frankel ex Edgware, London, England Berkeley, California, USA EBIN: Russia, New York, USA FRANKEL: Poland, London, England GOLDRATH/GOLD: Praszka, Poland, London, England KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, London, England, NYC, NY, USA LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland, London, England PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland, London, England, NYC, NY, USA