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ColinMc
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Website Fact

Post by ColinMc » 06 Mar 2021 20:35

How do others deal with Internet website articles.

Before the Source Template for Website, I created a Source in the old way titled for example"Internet Aboyeur 1". I then created a Custom Fact called Internet with a Citation to the sources, and created as many specific facts as were recorded in the article.

However, it does look rather pitiful sitting in the Facts Tab, as realistically in the vast majority of cases, I can enter nothing of relevance about date, address, place, age. So all that appears is
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One alternative might be to use a Newspaper article fact using the word Internet (or Website) for the name of the "paper". This has some attraction, as many of the articles I'm finding are quasi newspaper reports, albeit few of them have dates, or location etc.

Maybe a little thought about the label of "Newspaper article" might give something like "Media Article" which more obviously applied to more than just the press. The web site name is unlikely to be an attractive option in most cases for the fact value.

Alternatively, there might be no real need to capture the fact of the web site article itself as all the facts it contains will be entered individually and cited accordingly.

The more I think of this, the less relevance I see for a Newspaper Article Fact or a Website one!

How do others deal with this.
Colin McDonald - Researching McDonald, McGillivray, Tait, Rountree families

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Re: Website Fact

Post by tatewise » 06 Mar 2021 20:45

Your final thoughts are what I was thinking as I read through the discussion.
This concept has cropped up before. You are not alone.
There seems to be some motivation to create a Fact for 'unusual' source documents that never crosses peoples minds for popular sources such as BMD Certificates.
Nobody seems to consider creating a Fact for a Birth Certificate, yet newspaper & web articles 'demand' a Fact.
They are source documents that need Source Citations against the Facts derived from the article.
They don't need their own Facts, which is what you concluded.
Mike Tate ~ researching the Tate and Scott family history ~ tatewise ancestry

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Re: Website Fact

Post by ColinMc » 06 Mar 2021 21:14

Yes I Think I've talked myself into it. I'll dump all my newspaper facts over the next few weeks.
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Re: Website Fact

Post by AdrianBruce » 07 Mar 2021 21:10

The one exception to not having "Newspaper" type facts for me is Obituaries - and I mean Obituaries, not death or funeral notices. I felt that a proper Obituary was of such importance to people's stories that it was worth creating a fact for it.
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Re: Website Fact

Post by ColinMc » 07 Mar 2021 22:16

yes that does make sense, but I think I'd create a Custom fact Attribute for that. But thanks for the suggestion
Colin McDonald - Researching McDonald, McGillivray, Tait, Rountree families

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