No, at least not easily. The link takes you to a search web page but you are lacking the information needed to perform the search. Plus there is no way to select a specific data base to search. It would be much better to include the URL results of the search which point to the specific record. The only problem with the search URL is their length which often includes all of the search criteria. Someone once made a good suggestion of generating a TinyURL for the address. While I'm not in favor of including URL to smaller personal web sites, Ancestry.com tends to be more stable and therefore longer lasting. Just my opinion. BJ On 12/16/2013 10:56 AM, H R Worthington wrote: > John, > > Can you find this information, based on this Reference Note: > > "American Civil War Regiments", Online Database, The National Archives (www.ancestry.com), accessed: 18 May 2012; citing Historical Data Systems of Kingston, Massachusetts. Regimental History; Eleventh Cavalry Kansas (3-years). > > > >From FTM2014 and the Template Format? > > ________________________________ > John Okerson wrote: > > How would the group feel about using the url where the data was found within Ancestry.com? The database name would be subject to change, but .... > > Other thoughts on this topic please.

BJ, Up wouldn't search based on a citation !!!!   This a record collection on Ancestry.com that is records from Historical Data Systems. The collection is American Civil War Regisments, and online database at Ancestry, of the Eleventh Cavalry Kansas and I accessed it 18 May 2012.  "American Civil War Regiments", Online Database, The National Archives (www.ancestry.com), accessed: 18 May 2012; citing Historical Data Systems of Kingston, Massachusetts. Regimental History; Eleventh Cavalry Kansas (3-years) > >Russ ___________________________ Mailto:[email protected] ________________________________ From: BJ <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Eliminate Ancestry.com as a source No, at least not easily.  The link takes you to a search web page but you are lacking the information needed to perform the search. Plus there is no way to select a specific data base to search.  It would be much better to include the URL results of the search which point to the specific record.  The only problem with the search URL is their length which often includes all of the search criteria. Someone once made a good suggestion of generating a TinyURL for the address. While I'm not in favor of including URL to smaller personal web sites, Ancestry.com tends to be more stable and therefore longer lasting. Just my opinion. BJ On 12/16/2013 10:56 AM, H R Worthington wrote: > John, > > Can you find this information, based on this Reference Note: > > "American Civil War Regiments", Online Database, The National Archives (www.ancestry.com), accessed: 18 May 2012; citing Historical Data Systems of Kingston, Massachusetts. Regimental History; Eleventh Cavalry Kansas (3-years). > > > >From FTM2014 and the Template Format? > > ________________________________ > John Okerson wrote: > > How would the group feel about using the url where the data was found within Ancestry.com?  The database name would be subject to change, but .... > > Other thoughts on this topic please. ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Version 2008 - 2012 http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message