Image copies: Online publication from Ancestry.com

By History-Hunter on Mon, 06/28/2021 - 12:50

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To shorten and simplify some of my existing citations, I'm trying to reformat some of them to show the "physical item" first. While I'm not quite sure about the first and subsequent reference note formats, I'm quite concerned about the format of the source list entry and its length.

I've tried to use the QuickCheck Model for, "Image copies: Online publication," as a guide. The book layer seems fairly straight-forward. However; the book is imaged in, “Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936,” on Ancestry.com, rather than simply Google.

Here is a case that I've attempted:

Source List Entry

Edinburgh, Commissary Clerk of. Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories … in the Several Commissariots of Scotland, Together with English and Irish Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration Certified, and Colonial Grants … 1907. Edinburgh: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1908. “Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936.” Database with images. Ancestry. https://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=60558 : 2019.

[I could shorten this substantially by using the title, Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories … 1907. Would that work? Are there other "legal" optimizations?]

First (Full) Reference Note

Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh, Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories … in the Several Commissariots of Scotland, Together with English and Irish Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration Certified, and Colonial Grants … 1907 (Edinburgh: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1908), 32, Mary Cousland Baird, died 16 July 1872, confirmation granted 28 October 1907; imaged in “Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936,” database with images, Ancestry (https://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=60558 : accessed 21 July 2019).

Subsequent (Short) Note

Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh, Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories … 1907, 32, Mary Cousland Baird, confirmation granted 28 October 1907.

Submitted byHistory-Hunteron Mon, 06/28/2021 - 13:06

Just a thought...

Perhaps the short footnote could use "Edinburgh" as the author, instead of "Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh".

Submitted byEEon Mon, 06/28/2021 - 17:47

History-Hunter, shortening the title to the first five words, plus the year, is not a recommendation EE would make with a government publication. Too many times, with published gov docs, there are other volumes that have almost identical titles. In fact, for the same reason, I would not shorten the author from the office/agency to just the capital city.

Government records, more than anything else, trigger our urge to shorten. Bureaucracy is burdensome in every nation and every regard. But the few seconds we save by not typing the whole thing is usually greatly weighed by the time expenditure it later costs.