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Title: My Heritage Family Tree Builder - Adding A Source
Post by: Ghobhainn on Wednesday 08 November 17 09:06 GMT (UK)

Does anyone know the best method for citing a ScotlandsPeople source in FTBuilder (current build as of writing 8.0.0.8404). I find the source citing rather vague in regards to citing BMDS, in particular I'm interested in OPRs & Statutory records downloaded as digital images. The software's source system seems aligned to the Chicago manual style, citing authors, books, manuscripts etc. Not very helpful.
What would for instance be considered correct repository for ScotlandsPeople? I thought National Records of Scotland. Any ideas or examples would be appreciated. Thankyou.

Title: Re: My Heritage Family Tree Builder - Adding A Source
Post by: StevieSteve on Wednesday 08 November 17 09:24 GMT (UK)

Depends how fussy you want to be. I treat the repository as the place I went/need to go to see an image of the record.

So for me, ScotlandsPeople would be the repository.

Doubt that's the "correct" way to do it though

Title: Re: My Heritage Family Tree Builder - Adding A Source
Post by: Ghobhainn on Wednesday 08 November 17 09:49 GMT (UK)

Thanks, sounds the best idea. What I'm really getting at is the best way of adding citing a SP register, being that FTB has a book layout for it's source. Hard to explain this. In the Source Edit ithas the following. Don't know why anything would be added at text below. The actual citation page is where you add the particulars of the source.
Title
Abbreviation
Author
Agency
Text
Repository
Call Number
How would you cite SP register on a book format?