Can you imagine how thrilled my researcher friend was, when I pointed out that nothing sent to me came with dates? What you see is what I got.
No problem. We take what we can get. I’ve made clippings from a newspaper and forgotten to include the top of the page or write a date and the source on them. Sometimes, if a microfilm or a database is the source of the record, that’s all they have—a cropped excerpt. When I had a subscription, I used to see cropped snippets like that at Ancestry.