"Singhals" <singhals@erols.com> wrote > > It is tempting, oh-so tempting!, to list as a source for > great-grand's marriage something like > http://members.NASA.edu/web/web_page/this.html > and skip the wearisome step of VERIFYING the info in the real > records. > > The problem will arise (that's WILL, as in guaranteed) when, two, > six, eight months or a year from now when you try to go back to > http://members.NASA.edu/web/web_page/this.html > and get a 404- file not found, or a No DNS. [snip] > It seems to me that one of several other approaches could be (should > be?) taken -- cite the source (1) as "Jerry Murphy's website, Jul > 2001" or (2) as "Private Communication" or (3) [a personal favorite] > "I read this somewhere." After that happened to me I started including the applicable text of the link in my "notes" section on each individual. Lately I have stopped using the source section, as it is too time consuming *for me*. I guess the purists will be upset but I simply put everything in notes where it is easy to edit. So one might see the following: Click on the name of the individual; look at the "notes" 1880 Census- text version printout from web (date) Film or fiche number: XXXXXX 1880 federal population census United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880 State, County, Town. ------------------------------- Name SURNAME Male Facts and facts Etc etc ------------------------------- ....<http://www.whereever-I-foundit.fakecom.> It also helps to cite the "title" of the link in case you need to hunt for it later in order to update the link. (Servers change but often websites/webmasters simply move exact content elsewhere) Best wishes, "Tea Cup" <not-here@antispam.edu>