How often do I need to provide a citation for the same piece of information?
If I say, "Robert Smith married Gladys Jones on 1 January 1856 in Frederick County, Maryland" and provide the appropriate citation; do I have to add another citation (i.e. a subsequent citation) every time I repeat some portion of this statement?
I have been struggling with how to properly cite this book, Records of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, Maryland, Volume 1, copied and presented by Mrs. Warren D. Miller, Historian, Conococheague Chapter, DAR, of Hagerstown, Maryland, presented through the Genealogical Records Committee of the Maryland State Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Western Maryland Room, Washington County Free Library, Hagerstown, MD.
The suggested citation at the end of the lesson has as the title of the record: "Record of Marriages, October 1, 1885 - December 31, 1889, Male, L - Z." My understanding is that the use of quotation marks signifies that the actual name of a record is being given rather than a generic description. I am wondering whether this is really the title of this volume, i.e., is this what we would find on the record's cover or spine or title page? Since there is no image of the volume's cover (or any title page), we really don't know. The website might have expressly told us that this was the act
FamilySearch has published a record collection, "Arkansas, Death Index, 1914-1950," that it obtained from Ancestry.com.
When citing the FamilySearch collection in a source list, how much provenance should be included? I'm inclined to cite it as:
Should I attempt to indicate where Ancestry.com says they obtained the records from? (Genealogical Society, Little Rock.)
EE 9.6 indicates that when citing an online digital image, you cite the image as you would the original and then "append" the identification of the web publication.
The first reference note example given at EE 11.33 at first glance appears to me to not follow the above guideline:
Everett, Massachusetts, "BIRTHS REGISTERED IN THE Town of Everett, Mass.," 1870, p. 163 (penned), no. 7, Mary Amelia Hickok, 13 May 1870, Everett; digital images, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915," FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 6 Nov 2012); FHL microfilm 1,428,073.
EE, at 2.43, states:
"When we omit words from the middle of the title, as with Burgner, we should replace the words with an ellipsis (three dots preceded and followed by a space). When we use only the first few words and omit the remainder, as with Linebaugh and Rediker, no ellipsis points are needed."
Is the same thing true for quoting text from a source? That is, is the ellipsis at the end of the quotation below non-standard/wrong/unnecessary?
Is it proper to use "(penned)" after a page number for any records other than censuses? Is the sole purpose for doing so in censuses to distinguish between multiple/different page numbers on the same page, such that telling someone in a citation to a town register that has a penned page (and no other page numbers on that same page) unnecessary?
EE seems to use "digital images" for the most part, if not exclusively, while the Ancestry Quicksheet several times uses "digital image." Does it matter? If so, what are the guidelines for using each one?
Using censuses as an example, last names of family names other than the head of the family are not spelled out, but ditto marks or "do" is used, and places/states of birth are often abbreviated. Is it standard to simply give the presumed name and/or state without explanation or should one be showing exactly what is in the census, such as in the reference note below, so that someone else can come to their own conclusion?
