Adding the Image page number to the Sources citation for a specific person on the image
I found the image page [IMAGE #349] for my ancestor in this parish. Is there a way to add that number to the citation in the individual's Sources to benefit other family researchers for that person?
"Deutschland, Rheinland, Bistum Trier, katholische Kirchenbücher, 1704-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZL-VSHL-2?cc=2790268 : 11 September 2019), > image 1 of 1; Bistumarchiv (Diocese Archive), Trier, Germany. [IMAGE #349]
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That image is unavailable at home to non-LDS accounts like mine, so I can't use your specific example, but the Notes/Description field of the source can be used for specific (or corrected) image numbers, transcriptions or translations, and any other information you want to add.
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And when I save a copy to my files, I had that information to the foot of the document:
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I'm looking at a film with about 600 digital images. I have searched page after page and finally found my person with the exact digital image page number. When printing a copy of the page, only the digital number is given without the Image Number. Could that image number be part of the print out?
In the sources citations, could the digital Image Number be included? I add it to my entry if I use My Source Box, but it doesn't appear in the FS citation. So pity the next person who comes along and has to plow through all those images to find that person which they saw in the sources with only the digital number.
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While you cannot change an existing citation created by the system, you can definitely EDIT the source info to add a note that includes the film and image numbers. I prefer to have those two things in case the link listed isn't working for any reason.
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I also copy the image number, and I add it to the image when I download it.
I'd be reluctant to ask that the image number we see today be added to the citation. There is a plan to break apart certain films, to allow users to see parts of a film that are not restricted for privacy (100 years, for example) from parts of a film that are restricted for privacy. When that happens, the image number will no longer be valid.
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The plans to break up films may be why recently-published indexes do not even include the film or image group number in the citation.
(I mean, talk about a useless citation: it depends entirely and completely on the URL working in perpetuity -- no film number, no place, no event type, absolutely no means of locating the record in question if the link fails.)
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"absolutely no means of locating the record in question if the link fails"
Somebody in a predecessor forum to this once said that a citation should enable the reader to walk into the original archives and access the paper copy using that citation - and perhaps a little native wit. That FS citation would fail that test dismally. Indeed, most FS citations leave the researcher in an archive with at best a lot of reading to do ...
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