* URL as source citation

[BCourtney]

How does one place a URL or Internet Web Address as a source? Seems like when I right click on a Source Record while in the record view there should be a context menu item for this. I cannot add this to the fact set and get it to show up under source data. So can we not customize this? This is very strange, considering that alot of source citation s may have an URL or web address. Where am I missing the boat? I can't beleive FH handles complex Multimedia, yet cannot acccept web url's or addresses?

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[RSellens]

Hi,
You don't normally record the source as the web site, you do that as part of a 'repository'. The repository describes the location and the source describes the records themselves. An example would be that you have a source of a parish records transcription, and the repository give the location as the web site.

Richard

[JonAxtell]

I use the publication inforamtion field in a source to record the specific URL for a source, though the URL for the home page of the site is recorded in the repository's record.

[AlanWhite]

And, just to give you another view (everyone does things to suit their own needs), I wouldn't record the website except in certain unusual circumstances. The website is merely the publication medium: it's not a source (which, I suspect, is why Jon records it there).

For example, if you find a birth record on a FreeBMD transcription then FreeBMD isn't the source: the GRO is, providing you go and check the image or actual book.

[philjo]

Remember that the information on the website can change (or completely disappear) over time, so you must also record the date that you obtained the information from the website cited.

Jeremy