Familysearch record access date

By Steved on Tue, 02/25/2020 - 05:53

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The following image contains information about the death of Myrtle Bemis Perry:

"Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPZT-CLR3 : 25 October 2019), Myrtle Bemis Perry, Rochester Township, Olmsted, Minnesota, United States; citing Death, multiple county courthouses, Minnesota.

The access date given is 25 October 2019, but I viewed the record on 25 February 2020.

Should I change this date to the date I viewed it?

Submitted byEEon Tue, 02/25/2020 - 09:35

Steved, is your citation above the "ready-made" citation provided by FamilySearch?  If so, then substitute the date you accessed the image, rather than the canned date that an FS programmer accessed it.

You are correct. For my purposes, the ready-made citation is fine, but the date had me confused. I have been changing the date, but just out of curiosity, I thought I would pose the question. Thank you for all you do to help us.