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From: "Ken Nelson" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: NSW BDM Index
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 15:12:56 -0400


Sue,
How you set it up as a source will depend upon the nature of the indexes.
Are they original or are they copies of existing documents. Just recently I
purchased a CD for a county in Massachusetts, called "Vital Records of Essex
County to 1850". At the beginning of this century a state historical
association went through and compiled and published for each of a vast
number of towns the vital records. Each town had its own volume or volumes.
Recently a commercial venture gathered those volumes and put them on CDs.
Each county has its own CD with a number of towns on that CD. So Essex
County has 25-30 towns all photo'd with the surnames indexed. So there is
the photographic images of the original pages and a surname index to those
pages.

How I have chosen to set it up is to cite the CD with the citation detail
reading something like "Haverhill, 1:234" That would tell the reader that
the reference was to the Haverhill vital records, volume 1, page 234 on that
compact disc. That would give the reader the opportunity to go to the
compact disc and call it up or to a library with the Haverhill vital Records
and finding the original book and page. There are sometimes references to
where the vitals came from, for instance, "C. R. 3" which were probably from
a reference called Church records 3. I place that in the citation detail as
well.

How you choose to set yours up will depend on what exactly the index is.
Hope this helps.
Ken Nelson

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve & Sue <>
>NSW BDM Index is the New South Wales (Australia) Birth Death and Marriage
>Indexes. The info is available on cds and fiche.
>
>Each entry gives the essential details (for birth it's something like
>Surname, Given Name/s, Year, Father's Name & Mother's Name and Registration
>District) plus a registration number that you can use to order the
>certificate (or a transcript). The marriage index gives both husband's
>surname and wife's maiden name so in some cases you can go back some time
>just with the indexes (although I'm aware this is by no means fool proof).
>
>I'd like to be able to use NSW BDM Index as a source. I guess I'd then
>store the reference number in the memo. Do this sound right - do you have
>any suggestions?


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