Friday, April 25, 2014

Attaching Historical Records to Entire Families in FamilySearch Family Tree - Part 3: The Source Citations and Record Images

In Attaching Historical Records to Entire Families in FamilySearch Family Tree - Part 2: A Significant Problem (posted 22 April 2014), I found historical record summaries for my second great-grandmother, Sarah G. (Knapp) Auble and her family members, and attached them to her profile in the FamilySearch Family Tree.

I want to show how these records appear in the FamilySearch Family Tree after being attached to the person profile. 

In FamilySearch Family Tree, which is a universal, inter-connected, source-centric, open-access online family tree (meaning one profile for one person, with events supported by documentation, and open to editing and discussion by all registered users), the profile for Sarah G. Knapp appears as (five screens, some overlap):







As you can see in the last image, there are five sources for Sarah G. Knapp, each with a title that is a link.  The Source Citation can be seen by clicking on the link for each source.  I clicked on them and saw:


As an example, the source citation for the 1850 U.S. Census above is:

"United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6MX-STJ : accessed 25 Apr 2014), Sarah Auble in household of David Auble, Newark, West ward, Essex, New Jersey, United States; citing family 826, NARA microfilm publication M432.

Clicking on the link for this source on the FamilySearch profile page to the record summary for this census record leads to:


If I want to view the actual record, I can click on the "View document" link in the right-hand column:


I can see the source citation when I'm on the image by clicking on the "Show citation" link in the lower left-hand corner of the screen:



The source citation provided by FamilySearch for this image is:

"United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11691-127752-77?cc=1401638 : accessed 25 Apr 2014), New Jersey > Essex > Newark, West ward > image 117 of 221; citing NARA microfilm publication M432.

As I've pointed out before, the FamilySearch source citations are not exactly in Evidence Explained format for a census citation record image.  The link above goes to the record image, which is probably "good enough" for many researchers.  

 My own source citation for the record image above, and the Auble family, would be:

1850 United States Federal Census, Union County, New Jersey, population schedule, West Ward, Newark; Page 363, Dwelling #580, Family #826, David Auble household; indexed database and digital image, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 25 April 2014), image 117 of 221; citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 448, also available on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 443,647.

However, that includes information not in the FamilySearch source citations for the record summary or the record image, such as the dwelling number, family number, roll number, etc.

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