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Documenting personal initials and name variants in compiled genealogies
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In writing and documenting a compiled genealogy, I find many cases in which my source for a particular fact uses the person's initials rather than spelling out his given name(s). I'm undecided whether to expand the initials and document the full name or to use only the initials at that point. Frequently my source for a different fact that occurs later in the essay will provide the full name.
Citation from FamilySearch database using waypoints
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I've created this citation for the death register entry for Daniel Ashley who died 13 April 1867 at Hartland, Windsor County, Vermont available here: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L99C-B91D-7?i=102&cc=1987653&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQPQX-CLSQ
Is it necessary now to include access dates?
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Hi, EE...
I'm confused... In reading some responses to another thread here, I saw that there were no access dates included in a citation to online images at a website. However, when I go to the new Evidence Explained (specifically 11.39 State-level Certificates), access dates are included in the citation. Is there a hard-and-fast rule, or is this personal preference?
FamilySearch digitized books
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FamilySearch books online has what appears to be an originally unpublished work. Since FamilySearch has digitized and "published" it online, I can treat it like a published book when citing it, right?
Would the below citation be correct in this instance? BTW, 1925 is the year the original was produced, but I can't tell when FamilySearch "published" it online.
FamilySearch website layer
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The FamilySearch full-text search feature has been incredibly helpful, revealing many records I might have otherwise missed. I came across a deed that isn't found by searching and would require browsing over 750 pages to find. I have some questions about citing the website layer, using 9.40 and template 10 as references.
Based on those guidelines, my citation layers look something like this:
ScotlandsPeople.com - Wills and testaments
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The "Wills and testaments" collection of the ScotlandsPeople site is a bit unusual. The viewable material is typically the content of a "probate-like" package. That package can contain many submissions; each with its own submission date. The search results do show the overall "confirmation" date, which is effectively the date when the legal process ended and one can use the year portion in a search. However; the confirmation date, or even just the year, is not typically visible anywhere in the package materials.
Systematic History Fund
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Hello,
I’m rather new at citing online images and would appreciate your help. I’m trying to correctly cite a marriage listed in a published vital records book found in an Ancestry database (named). Template 1 (p. 116) and Template 10 (p. 128) seem to be appropriate for the citation layers.
Layers and Semicolons.
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Just when I thought I understood layers and semicolons, I don't. I had thought for imaged documents in a database, whether I choose either approach:
1. database name and waypoints; image identification/details
or
2. image identification/details; database name and waypoints
the two were separated into separate layers by a semicolon.
But now looking more closely at EE, case one uses a comma to string the information together.
Why is that?
Thanks
Jeff Hodge
FamilySearch German Church Records only accessed at FSLibrary
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Greetings:
While analyzing the citation on page 316 in Evidence Explained, 4th edition, I'm confused about the exclusion of the FSL digital film number, GDS number, and image number. Could you please clarify why these were left out?
Thank you