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"Cite this Record" date info (Historical records), new format, seems odd/incorrect
I was looking at a record recently, NEW format https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGWC-RMB
Under Document Information/Cite this record it said
""India Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947", database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGWC-RMB : 5 February 2020)
The date appearing 5 February 2020 struck me as odd. What is the significance of this past date. From memory only, I think in the "Old format" the date appearing was the date you accessed the record, which for a record you accessed today would be today's date.
Certainly with citations generally, the citation date would be the date you actually accessed the record.
This seems to need a programming change to the date the record has actually been accessed.
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A date with no explanation is a meaningless incantation. A definition of sorts needs to be added to that text.
I like to enter sources into my genealogy program and I would like to have a method (at times) of selecting the old method of showing source date instead of this new form .
Example: Kentucky marriage source PID (bride): KNXX-9W2; PID (groom): KHPQ-DK3
Old method:
Name: Frederick Smith
Sex: Male
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth B. Houchin
Spouse's Sex: Female
Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1839
Marriage Place: Edmonson, Kentucky, United States
Other information in the record of Frederick Smith
Name: Frederick Smith
Sex: Male
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth B. Houchin
Spouse's Sex: Female
Marriage Date: 17 Jan 1839
Marriage Place: Edmonson, Kentucky, United States
Digital Folder Number: 004260330
Microfilm Number: 367220
Image Number: 00044
Originating System: EASY
Indexing Batch: I08977-3
"Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F47D-V2C : 23 February 2021), Elizabeth B. Houchin in entry for Frederick Smith, 1839.
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"Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F47D-V2C : 23 February 2021), Elizabeth B. Houchin in entry for Frederick Smith, 1839.