Re: GEDCOM format for SOUR of Census

In message of 25 Dec, Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Kurt wrote:
> > "Head Geek" <headgeek@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > news:J8Dbj.1615$nh7.315@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> >>Anyone aware of well-argued recommendations for how to cite census
> > 
> > in
> > 
> >>GEDCOM SOUR structures?
> > 
> > 
> > Write them in the same form as references in scientific publications.
> > 
> > The main point is that it must be possible for other persons to find
> > the source.
> >

Thoroughly agreed.  Source references are no good unless they lead you
directly to finding the original or a secure copy, or even abstract,
thereof.

A very Happy Xmas follows...

> the url of the image

URLs fade and lose their round ones.  They are not secore
 
> and
> 
> copy paste from the ancestry person page

I regret I can't follow this one!

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