When recording obituaries, which is the right / most common source title to use - (1) the derived title "Obituary - Helen V. Gay", or (2) something these? The notice is published in a paper, "Richmond Times-Dispatch", and then this paper's obituaries are on a service www.legacy.com that scans and records/extracts really the notices from more than 200 papers around the nation. So, would I record the "Richmond Times-Dispatch", or the website that I got the information from? I checked with EVIDENCE, and really did not close that book with any clarity. Just wanting to get started right, since my records are in such a "series of piles, folders, and such."
At 08:29 AM 6/20/2006, Dick Davis wrote: >When recording obituaries, which is the right / most common source title to >use - (1) the derived title "Obituary - Helen V. Gay", or (2) something >these? I would record the title of the obituary. >The notice is published in a paper, "Richmond Times-Dispatch", and then this >paper's obituaries are on a service www.legacy.com that scans and >records/extracts really the notices from more than 200 papers around the >nation. The Richmond Times-Dispatch is the publisher, and there's a field for that. Where you find this obituary is the repository and there's a field for that. Remember, for sources, the key is to figure out the native format of the source and enter information about that format. If you see it on microfilm, you can add that data on the second tab. If you found it on the web, you can put the website as the repository and link to it in the Digital File field. Elizabeth Mills (author of Evidence!) has a 4-page Quicksheet to help with citing online sources. It's $5.95 and I sell it on the Ancestor Detective website at www.ancestordetective.com. Evidence! was published in 1997 and doesn't cover too much Web stuff. Liz Kelley Kerstens, CG, CGL @>---- Ancestor Detective, LLC http://www.ancestordetective.com Creator of Clooz, http://www.clooz.com Editor of Genealogical Computing, http://www.ancestry.com Editor of NGS NewsMagazine, http://www.ngsgenealogy.org