{"id":2578,"date":"2016-04-19T16:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2016-04-19T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:13:29","slug":"they-can-do-it-in-maryland-why-not-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"They Can Do It In Maryland, Why Not Elsewhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Screen shot of entire land record from Harford County, Maryland.<\/p><\/div>\n

Why can’t they all do it this way?<\/p>\n

When users download images of local Maryland land records from the\u00a0MDLANDREC<\/a><\/em> website<\/a>, a red citation is included on the far left hand edge of the image. \u00a0It’s \u00a0clearly in the margin of the actual document image, but it is a helpful feature that more sites should incorporate. Apparently generated on the fly, it even includes the date the image was downloaded.<\/p>\n

Is it in proper\u00a0Evidence Explained<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>format? Of course not. After all,\u00a0Evidence Explained<\/a><\/em>‘s author is not sitting idly by waiting to craft citations as these records are retrieved. I’m reasonably certain she has better things to do.<\/p>\n

But the red citation\u00a0certainly contains enough information to allow a user to create an accurate and adequate citation for the image. One can easily use that information to create a citation in the spirit of\u00a0Evidence Explained<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Enlarged image of the auto-generated citation.<\/p><\/div>\n

I just wish that more sites would do this. \u00a0It is especially helpful for records of this type where images from one\u00a0record book often look exceedingly similar to those from another record book. Often one can tell the county in which a document was recorded by context clues within the recorded copy of the document. The page number is usually legible, but not always.<\/p>\n

The book number or name usually is not indicated on every page.<\/p>\n

Users should capture enough information from an image to cite it as they save the image<\/em>. But we all know that doesn’t happen.<\/p>\n

This just makes the citation much easier.<\/p>\n

And here’s wishing more sites would do it.<\/p>\n

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There’s more information in this post<\/a> about\u00a0my webinar on using this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why can’t they all do it this way? When users download images of local Maryland land records from the\u00a0MDLANDREC website, a red citation is included on the far left hand edge of the image. \u00a0It’s \u00a0clearly in the margin of the actual document image, but it is a helpful feature that more sites should incorporate. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}