What Do You Think of This?

19 04 2012

In my last post, under the signature of the letter, I included a link to the letter writer’s Civil War records at Ancestry.com. Of course, you need to be a subscriber to Ancestry.com for the link to work, but I thought this might be a time-saving measure for some readers looking for more. Let me know what you think of this. If enough feel it’s a good idea, I’ll try to include a similar link when I can. Also, do you like the separate link, or would it be better to just hyperlink the signature?

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Date : April 19, 2012
Tags: Ancestry.com, Articles, Digital History
Categories : Articles, Digital History

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15 05 2012: Brett S. - The Siege of Petersburg Online (12:43:57) :

Harry,

This strikes me as an excellent idea. If you consistently link the signature, people will get used to that convention. It might be a good idea to put something in parentheses like “(Editor’s Note: Left click the signature to view Ancestry.com data on the author.)” for awhile as people get used to the idea.

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15 05 2012: Harry Smeltzer (13:11:45) :

Thanks for the feedback, Brett. Oh Lord, I hope I don’t need to put instructions on how to use links – I’ve got links everywhere in most of my posts. I assume some minimum level of hyperlink understanding, and to do otherwise would really crap things up! I think I’ll just leave it as is for now.

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