Citation for Newspaper article from ancestry com.

Question

I just created a citation for Spicer-3522 from a newspaper in ancestry.com (not newspapers.com).  The whole fact w/citation and NO clipping is:

Clarence founded the Spicer Manufacturing Company in the 1904.<ref>"Spicer Manufacturing Company Division of Dana Corporation Welcomes the Antique Automobile Club of America for Its Spring meet Saturday June 14 1952" ''Pottstown Mercury'' 14 Jun 1952, Vol 21, No 223, Page 5 (Ancestry.com. Pottstown Mercury (Pottstown, Pennsylvania) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

Original data:Pottstown Mercury. Pottstown, PA, USA. Database created from microfilm copies of the newspaper.  Accessed 26 July 2023)</ref>

Is it legal?

Comments

The only problem I see with the source citation is the lack of a link to it.

If you want to also include a link to the same at Newspapers.com, this is their provided source citation:

The Mercury, June 14, 1952, Page 5. via Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-mercury-spicer-manufacturing-spring/128928239/ : accessed July 26, 2023), clip page for Spicer Manufacturing Spring Meet 1952 by user NSpires7704

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I do not belong to newspapers.com.  How would I find the link you found?

I have found those links with Google searches for some clippings found in ancestry.com.

But thanks for the link!

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Since you are not a member of Newspapers.com, you would not be able to search for it which is why I shared it with you.

The link for the source citation you provided from Ancestry.com--just use the URL of the page. Members would not be able to access it, but you could also provide the "sharing link" if one is available. Here's a section of a WikiTree Help Page which explains how to provide a "sharing link." 

Answer 1

The article is also at Ancestry. Surprisingly Ancestry does not create a citation for it (for newspaper marriages and obits it does). It was quite easy to find: I searched with the name and location only, and it was among the hits. Of the results I selected publications and newspapers, and it was one of very few hits.

As for your closing question? Why wouldn’t it be? You have a fact, and a citation with sufficient detail to find it. Personally, I do not include links because they too vulnerable to “link rot.”