Citation examples:Ancestry.com records without citation (Cambridge Alumni)
Many Ancestry records (eg census) give nice citations, that are easy to copy and paste into Gramps.
This is an example of a Gramps citation for an Ancestry record without a citation given to us. The important thing is to use sensible values in the Gramps citation Volume/Page text-box that ensure we uniquely identify the record.
Contents
Event
This is the main Gramps event for this citation, although I will also use the citation for birth and death events.
| Gramps Field | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Event Type | Education | |
| Date | 1874-09-24 | |
| Id | Let Gramps auto-populate this | |
| Place | Trinity College, Cambridge, England | |
| Description | Admitted pensioner at Trinity, Cambridge University | This event needs some discription because it is more unusual than our normal census etc records. |
| Role (not shared) | Primary | This is the default value |
Source
| Gramps Field | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Title | Cambridge University Alumni | |
| Author | ||
| Id | Let Gramps auto-populate this | |
| Abbreviation | ||
| Pub. Info | http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/ |
Repository
| Gramps Field | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Name (shared) | Ancestry.co.uk | Should I use "Ancestry.com" as a generic name, or "Ancestry.co.uk", which is the Ancestry site I use? |
| Type (shared) | Web site | |
| Media Type (not shared) | Electronic | |
| Call number (not shared) | http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=3997&enc=1 | This is not really necessary and is not a standard value, but it is the Ancestry link for this source. This is the Ancestry.com database link, so it is more general than the specific citation). |
Citation
| Gramps Field | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Date | 1851-03-30 | Or should this be the date that I reviewed the source? |
| Id | Let Gramps auto-populate this | |
| Volume/Page | Ernest Pemberton. Barnes [post Pemberton-Barnes]; TRINITY 1874 | Ancestry doesn't provide any nice citation information for us so we have to derive it - this seems like sensible detail that should enable any other researcher to find the record from the original source. |
| Confidence | Normal | This is the default. You may want to set this to 'Low' or 'Very Low' if you are not sure this is the right family |
| Note | (Type: Transcript)
Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Sept. 24, 1874. S. of William, of The Hall, Havering, Essex. B. Feb. 12, 1855, at Romford. School, Brighton College (Mr Bigg). Matric. Michs. 1874; B.A. 1879; M.A. 1882. Died Sept. 20, 1920. Brother of Percy P. (1878). (Fox-Davies.) |
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| Data | Key: AncestryLink
Value: http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=alumni6&h=96973&indiv=try |
It isn't necessary to set this data attribute.
But Gramps doesn't yet have a repository-specific attribute for this in the citation (only at the source level), so this is one way you could save the Ancestry URL. |
