Hello everyone,

I wanted to get an opinion from the members on citing sources.

I try to be diligent in noting from where I get my information. However; now that I am keeping more and more documents, family trees, etc. online, it's also important to have my sources cited online as well as on the printout of the document.

I would like to have the proper format for citing my sources, but when it comes to citing the Forest of Dean Parish Records, I'm not sure how best to do that. I've seen several different ways to cite an online source, but am still not sure the best/proper format to use.

Recommendations?

Thank you,
Wendy

I think it's important to record that the source is a transcription, done by a 3rd party (ie not yourself).

I use a simple title of "Forest of Dean Parish Transcription" and then cut-and -paste the full text of that transcription. My master source details have the full website address.

In this way another researcher could find the original record, or just the FoD version.

There's a lot of advice on source citations, but you could easily spend more time on entering those details than doing the actual research!

Other FoD website info I annotate as "Forest of Dean Website"...."forum", or "pictures", or whatever, with details of submitter and date. When people email me details I use "From the records of......(FoD website)"

Hope others have a better system to offer, though!
Bob

Thanks, Bob. Maybe I am making things too complicated! It might not be necessary to make my English professor proud - just enough so that others can find the record, as you stated.

Wendy

I usually just put in "FoD" as the source, which at least is easier to put in every time it is needed, and is better than no source. Paul