FamilySearch Collection name doesn't come up when performing a collection search

Ah, yes, agonzaleswithans. You’ve discovered a problem. You’re also wise to test your website citation after crafting it, using a different browser, to see if it works when your downloaded pages are no longer in cache.

Using the collection name that appears in FamilySearch's recommended citation, I hit the same snag you noticed. At FamilySearch.org > search > collection

• when I typed "México, Tamaulipas, registros parroquiales, 1703-1964" into the search box, I got no results.
• When I typed in your second option, “Mexico, Tamaulipas, Catholic Church Records, 1703-1964,” I was taken to the search page for that collection.

There, the problem is obvious:

FamilySearch's database uses one collection title (an English-language title), while its wonderful, ready-made citation uses a Spanish-language title that the website's search engine did not recognize.

The screenshot above also includes a piece of information that we’re wise to use in our identification of the URL: the collection number.

In fact, using the full URL for our citation’s landing page

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1790934

would bypass the problem you’ve flagged (the collection title that doesn't work in the "Search Collections" search box).

As for which collection title to use, EE would use the one that does work when it’s typed into the search box for collections. It’s also the one that appears repeatedly in the path to the image and on the image page itself

Beyond this, your example gives us several other issues to discuss.

Search options

The landing page for the collection gives us two ways to approach the records: (1) a search box for name, place, and year; and (2) “Browse all 199,328 images.”

Many users of the collection will automatically turn to the search box. However, when I used the search box and entered the three required pieces of information, as given in your citation (“Jose Leonicio Gonzales,” “Santander Jimenez,” and “1822), I got no hits. Even when I added the diacriticals, I got no hits.

Fortunately, your citation includes the path. EE would include the word “Browse” in the path to direct the user to that feature, thereby sparing them the frustration of using the search box.

On the other hand, if you choose to use the ark URL, you could eliminate the path entirely.

Title of volume

Your draft citation begins with

Los Cinco Señores (Santander Jimenez, Tamaulipas, Mexico), Entierros [Burials], Dec 1819 - 1844, …

Within this pattern, these pieces of information would represent

Name of Church that Authored the Record (Location of Church), Title of Volume

However, the title of the volume (as given on the tag stuck onto the cover imaged at 110) is

“Entierros, S-Jiménez, Tam.” [Burials, S-Jiménez, Tam.]

The first page of the volume, where a full title often appears, gives us a different identification …

“Libro perteneciente à la Fabrica de esta Parroquia …” [Book belonging to the Governing Board of This Parish …]

The rest of this identification, on what would normally be the “title page,” does not identify the book as a burial book.

Given a choice between the label on the book’s cover and the wording on the first page, EE would use the more explicit wording on the cover. EE would also put it within quotation marks to non-verbally say “These are the exact words you’ll see on the cover if you have the right book.” 

If EE added dates, as you have done, EE would use square editorial brackets around those dates to non-verbally say, “The title to the book doesn’t tell you the dates but to be more explicit I’m adding dates from FS’s cataloging entry” (or from my own examination of the volume, or wherever I got those dates from).

Folio No.

Your draft citation specifies “folio 10.” When we look at the image, we see a two-page spread; and the number appears only at the top right of the right-hand page. However, your entry is on the left-hand page. 

When you use a folio number, think “leaf.”  A "folio" is not the backside of one leaf and the front side of the next. It's a leaf or a sheaf of leaves. When we go back to the start of the book, we see that the book begins with number 1, placed on the front side of a leaf (right-hand side of the page).  Folio 1 covers that entire first leaf, front side (recto, meaning the right side) and backside (verso, meaning the reverse).  At image 121, the records that appear on the left side of the page are on folio 9, verso, which we might also write as folio 9v.

Layer 3

The ready-made citation from FS’s algorithm includes a third layer: the “citing ….” layer. In this case, however, there is no need to say what you provider is citing because your provider (FamilySearch) is not citing anything else that has not already been included in your citation.

Putting all this together, EE would suggest:

Los Cinco Señores (Santander Jiménez, Tamaulipas, Mexico), “Entierros [Burials] S-Jiménez, Tam.,” folio 9 verso, Act No. 3, Jose Leonicio Gonzalez, 28 November 1822; accessed as "México, Tamaulipas, Catholic Church Records, 1703–1964," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1790934 : accessed 19 May 2022) > Browse > Santander Jiménez > Los Cinco Señores > Defunciones 1781-1845 > image 121 of 257.

Or, if using the ark (and its inherent risks):

Los Cinco Señores (Santander Jiménez, Tamaulipas, Mexico), “Entierros [Burials] S-Jiménez, Tam.,” folio 9 verso, Act No. 3, Jose Leonicio Gonzalez, 28 November 1822; accessed as "México, Tamaulipas, Catholic Church Records, 1703–1964," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9396-NYB2-H : accessed 19 May 2022).

If I may add something ... FamilySearch is a multi-lingual site. As such, the collection names are available in more than one language. Users who use the Spanish interface would have no difficulty find the collection name "México, Tamaulipas, registros parroquiales, 1703-1964."

agonzaleswithans, adding those dates into the title with square editorial brackets around them, is a very good approach.