Handwritten photocopy, unpublished "manuscript", untitled

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I have (and currently cannot find!) a photocopy of handwritten, folder-bound booklets that a distant cousin wrote in 1975 when she was in her 80s. Most of the writing was to document our common ancestors' descendants, although there is a little bit about where they came from, why, and church memberships. I have written before using information from this source and am transferring it to a new article.

I have good citations from my past article and intend to reuse them in the updated article. What I'm not sure about is the format of the citations. Because the writings are currently misplaced (it's not lost - it's here in a pile somewhere), I have to go from what I put in my old citations (based on Evidence! - they were in 2000) and what I know now.

Old type citation:

       3. Myrtle (Kuhn) Larmore, Writings on the Coon family, photocopy of handwritten manuscript, 1975. Possession of the author.

New type citation with added information in blue:

       4. Myrtle (Kuhn) Larmore, Writings on the Coon Family, photocopy of handwritten unpublished manuscript, 1975, Conrad and Barbara Coon Family Research Files; privately held by Elizabeth Ballard (coongenealogy@hotmail.com), [STREET ADDRESS AND CITY FOR PRIVATE USE,] Indiana, 2016. Contains information on the descendants of Conrad and Barbara Coon as written by Larmore when she was 84. Larmore was a granddaughter of George Kuhn, and great-granddaughter of Coonrod and Barbara. She wrote that she and other family members listened to stories from “Mum,” Sarah (Johnson) Kuhn. Sarah (Johnson) Kuhn was the wife of George. Sarah (Johnson) Kuhn died in 1917, when Larmore was 25 years old. Location of original unknown. Photocopy given to Margaret Ellen Wilson, great-grandaughter of George and Sarah (Johnson) Kuhn and mother of Elizabeth Ballard, by Margaret's brother James William Wilson, circa 1984.

I do not (but wish I did) know who has the original, as Myrtle may have updated it since the photocopies were made (she died in the early 1980s). There is information in it that exists no place else I have found. I don’t know when the photocopy was made, either. Of note is that I did not document page numbers in my original citations (I have no idea why not).

I have attached a title page from a different item that Myrtle wrote. This is the only page I have scanned in so far. If I were citing this one, it clearly has a title which I would put in quotes. I do not remember if the Coon one does, and I didn't cite it prior if so. Which leads me back to doing the best I can with what I have.

For it, I would now do a privately held, titled, unpublished manuscript citation - "History of Anderson Johnson and Strangman Johson, no relation." Incidentally, they were related, we just didn't know it. This work done by Myrtle was the starting point that led to my finding that out.

 

 

Submitted byEEon Fri, 09/02/2016 - 08:09

eevande, you've done a splendid job--not just for the core citation but for the provenance data that will help others to evaluate the reliability of the source. And, yes, for the document you uploaded, the title would be placed in quotations when cited, as opposed to the generic identity of the untitled work.  Good luck on the new article!

Submitted byeevandeon Fri, 09/02/2016 - 08:17

Thank you! And if (when) I locate my copy of the one and it has a title, I can update my citation.