{"id":4095,"date":"2017-02-04T22:20:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T22:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2017-02-04T22:20:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T22:20:03","slug":"indexer-confuses-mother-and-mother-in-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4095","title":{"rendered":"Indexer Confuses Mother and Mother-in-law"},"content":{"rendered":"

If FamilySearch<\/em>, Ancestry.com<\/em>, or any other site has the actual image of a record on their site, that’s what I use to create my citation and to extract to put information into my own database.<\/p>\n

My grandmother (under her maiden name) appears in\u00a0FamilySearch<\/em>‘s “Illinois, Mildred Hooper Obituary Collection ca. 1959-1981.” The database entry for Ida Trautvetter indicates that Fannie Rampley Neill is her mother.<\/p>\n

How they arrived at that is questionable. The first illustration to this post is the record entry for Ida Trautvetter in this database. The \u00a0FamilySearch <\/em>suggested citation is included. Since this database entry links to an obituary from which the “information” was taken, I’m not even going to worry about putting this information in my files. The reason is not that the information is incorrect (which it is), but that it is information that has been extracted from the actual obituary. This is not an index entry that adds information and should be cited as a source of its own. It is a finding aid.\"ida-trautvetter-fannie-neill\"<\/p>\n

The information was taken from an obituary for my Grandfather Neill.<\/p>\n

I am not certain how the information was interpreted so that Fannie was seen as the mother of Ida. I’m not certain I even want to know. Indexes are meant to be finding aids. The creators of indexers unfortunately do not always critically analyze what they are indexing. That’s really not their job. Indexes are meant to point researchers to records.<\/p>\n

I’ve created a new image with the obituary (as it appears in the “Illinois, Mildred Hooper Obituary Collection, ca. 1959-1981”), the source (as suggested by\u00a0FamilySearch),<\/em>\u00a0the film number, the image within the images number, and my comments. Before I enter the information from these records into my database, I need to decide how clippings from this collection should be sourced. I’m not going to want to do that while I’m making discoveries in the database and don’t want to delay searching while I figure out the citation (let’s be realistic here), but all the information will help me to make that citation.\u00a0<\/i>The limitation to “waiting” to enter this in my database and make citations is that I will have to manually type in much of the citation information as it cannot be copied and pasted from this image.<\/p>\n

\"cecil-neill-obituary\"<\/p>\n

But I’m not even going to cite this image or use this it in my database. It’s not because there is anything wrong with this image copy of the obituary.<\/p>\n

Itis because I already have an actual newspaper copy. There’s no need for me to cite a digital image of it as well. For those images I don’t already have, I’ll use the digital image as I’m not going back to find each original item in the newspaper where it appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, or any other site has the actual image of a record on their site, that’s what I use to create my citation and to extract to put information into my own database. My grandmother (under her maiden name) appears in\u00a0FamilySearch‘s “Illinois, Mildred Hooper Obituary Collection ca. 1959-1981.” The database entry for Ida […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","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=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}