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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Source template for W. W. ! Draft cards
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:52:20 -0400
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At 16:59 8/10/2006 -0400, bob gillis wrote:
>The subject was Ancestry Census downloads. These are not going to
>change and I doubt that they will disappear.
>
>I divided on-line sites into two groups. Data sites such as Census,
>WW1 draft registrations and SSDI, which do not change ( the latter
>only gets added to). I do not think the date downloaded is relevant
>
>and collected or personal sites which can and often do change her
>the date is important.

Any page on any web site is subject to change. By this I mean that
ALL pages are subject to change. I do not mean that all pages
_will_ change, but they _could_ change. In the case of Census pages,
I have seen some pages be updated. I had printed a page and forgot I
had printed it. Later after I had again printed it (about two months
later), I was filing the second page and found the first. The
difference was a much clearer second page. I did not _see_ any
difference in the data although faint characters of the first
printing _could_ have been read/interpreted as something else.

Further there are mis-postings of census pages. That is, a page is
left out or posted out of order. These kind of changes probably
would not effect any change to what anyone cites unless it affects
the URL of the adjoining pages. But if a correction of that type
does change the URL, that is effectively a change to a web page.

As for the SSDI, a friend told me of a case where he found an error
in dates for a person (a relative for whom he was executor of the
estate) and wrote the Social Security Administration asking it be
corrected. My friend said the error was corrected in a later issue
of the SSDI.

Thus any page is subject to change. Many pages will never change,
but we don't always know if.when a page could change. We could guess
by looking at some census pages that this one _could_ change while
that one probably would not. But those are guesses.



Lee Hoffman/KY
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