Can we add documents/books hyperlinks with page numbers as sources?
We have several BOOKs in the digital library in FamilySearch. They have reference and sources that should be sighted in profiles. It would be great to be able to use a hyperlink with a page # as a source. There are other digital sources as well
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This function exists.
One way to proceed: go to the profile's Sources page, click "Add Source", and choose "Add New Source".
On the resulting "Create Source" popup, you can cite a book found online (whether on FS or elsewhere) by pasting the URL into the "Web Page" field. You can put the page number and other details in the Citation box.
(The title is the only required field.)
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In the upper right of the page you want to use as a Source, click on the sharing icon. At the bottom of the list select, 'Copy link'. In the following window select 'Copy Page Link'. Navigate your way back to the Sources Tab and 'Paste' the link you just created into the appropriate spot. Don't forget to include the name of the Document/Book and the appropriate page numbers as shown in the original. In this case I'd use Page '562' as shown in the book. Not the image number '598'
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Mark
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You can link to a particular page in a FamilySearch digital book, as Indicated by Julia above. In the FamilySearch book reader, click on the share icon at the far right. However, my experience is that page links in the FS Digital Library are very unstable over time. By this I mean that FamilySearch seems to often change the URL format for pages, and what is the URL for a particular page today may not link to that page in the future.
If you can find the same book in the Internet Archive, I would use that in preference. In my experience URLs are much more stable in the Internet Archive.
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