> There was a thread on APG about citing Ancestry Census Images. > > I asked on that list and received one answer that dd not address my > first question. > > Why do the citation examples for on-line sources in Evidence by E S > Mills have the date accessed included? In the case of Census, SSDI > and many other data bases, the information is added to or if changed > is usually noted in the image or page. Unless there is difficulty > in determining from the image what the information actually is why > is the date accessed relevant? > > In family files I can see the date accessed being included as the > information in the files can be changed. > > bob gillis <[email protected]> Hi Bob! Knowing the date that a particular piece of data was displayed on a Web page can help researchers to do something *really* useful. The Internet Archive at: http://www.archive.org/ has snapshots of many Web pages. If you know a URL and a specific date, you have a reasonably good chance of being able to see the page exactly as the original researcher did, even if the page has changed or if the site has completely disappeared. Better still, if the site has gone away, often you can figure out where the content moved by looking at the last version captured by the Internet Archive. We use that trick all that time at Linkpendium when our link validator finds dead links ... Cheers, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L Co-founder, http://www.rootsweb.com/ and http://www.linkpendium.com/ P.O. Box 6831, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6831 [email protected]

> Knowing the date that a particular piece of data was displayed on a > Web page can help researchers to do something *really* useful. > > <snip> > > Dr. Brian Leverich Unless there was something wrong with the image, ie the info on the image was not decipherable, which I would note in my report or I made an tracribing error, I doubt anyone would bother to go look up a Census image. bob gillis bob gillis <[email protected]>