You asked whether John could find the information based upon the citation. I don't think you can but I could be wrong so if it is as easy as you say please provide me with the exact steps you took to access the record so that I can duplicate them and find the documentation. I would be very interested in how you were able to go directly to the American Civil War Regiments collection on Ancestry.com. Since it is an online data base, one of the tenants of an online data base is the ability to search it. I was able to get to the American Civil War Regiments collection but not through Ancestry.com. I had to Google - American Civil War Regiments collection on Ancestry.com. I did get a match for that search but that isn't using the link provided by you in your citation - (www.ancestry.com) BJ On 12/16/2013 3:45 PM, H R Worthington wrote: > 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 > ********************************** > 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 >