Citation Issues

Elizabeth,

I have been studying EE citation models for Scotland Archives  records. I have a photocopy of a will acquired in 1987. I recently emailed the Archives of Scotland asking for a citation model. This is what was returned.

"The precise reference is National Records of Scotland testament testamentar of William Murray, retired fish curer in Stuartfield, Wick confirmed in Register of inventories and wills, Wick Sheriff Court  reference SC14/40/32 pages 305-325."

Stuartfield was the name of Williams home on Francis Street in Wick.

I guess my initial question is what kind of document would this be considered?

How would you cite this document? The title is as follows...
The United States of America 
Department of Commerce 
Bureau of the Census
Washington 
Notification of Birth Registration

This certifies that the following Record of Birth is registered and preserved in the office of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

It was issued by the the Oklahoma City Board of Health.

I find myself getting lost in the details trying to construct layered citations.

I'm trying to develop a layerd citation for a death certificate image from Ancestry.com that originally came from an original in the Pennsylvania State Archives.  Here's what I've come up with:

What I have in my hands is a photo copy of a page from a compiled book of obituaries from a county in Ohio. The book is photo reproductions of the original newspaper obituaries clipped from a specific newspaper, not transcripions.

My question, of course, is the proper form of citation. One possibility is:

Dear Editor,

Yes, I am back, but with a, I hope, generic question. As you may know, I am fighting, no working with my genealogy database management software program.

I'm having some difficulty understanding the difference between Online Database (Ancestry) and Online Images (Ancestry), which have different "First Reference Notes" (EE 6.19). I understand the citations, but when should I use Database versus Images?

Evidence Explained:

Dear Editor,

I have a question about a Census Record has a Household at the bottom of one page, and the Household continues at the top of the next.

I cite my Census Records by Household, but that might be a different topic, in doing so, I was able to identify the name of a 2nd wife, because her children from a previous marriage were listed in the household being related to the Father, her 2nd husband, as Step (daughter, son).

My question is, what if that Household is on two pages? Do I do this:

I have a copy of a cemetery record that is an application for service (EE 5.8) but includes interment location (EE 5.7) and names the purchaser (EE 5.9).

Unlike the example in EE 5.8, this application was made by the next of kin, not the mortuary firm.

I would like to use this application to capture the interment location so I tacked it on at the end of an EE 5.8 citation:

River View Cemetery Association (Portland, Oregon), application for interment of Charles W. Roggy, submitted by Helene Roggy, 19 Oct 1981.  Interment listed as niche 704, corridor 16.

Hi,

I'm not at all an historian, but I'm a writer who is extremely interested in history.

I've started a history book that begins with how the earth originally formed (billions of years ago). How do I write about this topic legally, since there are no original documents and I'm not an expert? So far I've been reading multiple websites, and writing in my own words.

Also, what determines when I have to cite websites I've read?

Thanks!

Kara

Dear editor,

In the Netherlands, repositories are increasingly putting their finding aids online including scans of the original records. We use these scans just like we would originals: we browse the finding aid, following the hierarchy down to the document we like to consult, and then instead of asking the archivist to get the document for us, we click through to the scans.