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I have reviewed EE4 template 10 and developed these two related citations:
Saline County, Arkansas, untitled court records book, p. 21, road petition, July Term 1837; imaged, “Arkansas Probate Records, 1817-1979,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2061549 : accessed 31 October 2024) > Saline > County Court records 1836-1848 > image 14 of 172; citing “County courthouses, Arkansas.”
Saline County, Arkansas, untitled court records book, p. 60, appointment of Wm. J. Wills as road overseer, January Term 1839; imaged, “Arkansas Probate Records, 1817-1979,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2061549 : accessed 31 October 2024) > Saline > County Court records 1836-1848 > image 35 of 172; citing “County courthouses, Arkansas.”
My question lies in whether I have handled the lack of a cover page for the book appropriately. The book cover itself is at image 1 at the above cited path.
Hello, mbcross. You've…
Hello, mbcross. You've handled the situation in Evidence Style, except for two points. EE4 §2.59 (Capitalization: Untitled Items) recommends this:
2.59 Capitalization: Untitled Items:
When citing documents or manuscripts that have no formal title,
we create a label that answers the basic questions who, what, when,
and where. For those labels, we may choose to follow the Initial Caps
Rule given at 2.57 for publication titles, or we may capitalize only
the first letter of the first word. For example:
• Defaulters’ Tax List of 1799, Natchitoches Post, Louisiana
• Defaulters’ tax list of 1799, Natchitoches Post, Louisiana
For identifying a book that covers a range of years, Chapter 3 (Building a Citation) offers this advice:
3.10 Block 6: Date or Year of Creation or Publication (When?)
Placing each source in the context of time is critical not only to its
identity but also to our analysis of that source. Sources may carry
multiple dates, representing multiple actions at different times.
For example:
• Original records (both personal and public) usually carry a date
on which the document was written, begun, or completed. This
date is an essential part of the document’s identification.
• Original registers (record books) maintained by churches or
government agencies frequently carry labels on the cover or spine
stating when the clerk began the register and perhaps the day or
year the last entry was made. When a register’s cover carries no
identification, or the cover has been torn away, we might find a
label or title on the first inside page. With undated church and
governmental registers, we may glean the span of years from the
recording dates of the first and last documents. This date or time
frame is an essential part of the record book’s identification. ....
In that case, would it be…
In that case, would it be appropriate to use the source title provided by FamilySearch (i.e., County Court records 1836-1848) even though it appears later in the citation and would, thus, result in some repetition?