Citation Issues

I recently ordered birth certificates for my parents and grandparents from the state vital records.  The certificates I received are all identical format, exactly the same as my own, obtained several years ago. They are all modern "multi-colored" pages with the birth information printed on them.  The issue date on the four I just received are identical and all are noted as "certified."

I am attempting to develop a reference not for images I obtained from newspapers preserved on microfilm held within a collection at a state library.

According to the Library's website:

"Washington State Library holds over 40,000 rolls of 35mm microfilm for Washington newspapers from the territorial period in the 1850s to the present.
This collection is available for in-library use . . . ."

Dear EE,

In studying Chapter 4, QuickCheck Model on p. 170, I was "surprised" by the First Reference Note arrangement. Could you enlighten me as to what prompted leading with item of interest? This seems a departure from the common placement later in the arrangement. Examples at 4.23 did not follow suit. Am I correct to say this is an accomplishment of "emphasis"?

wayneson

When I first used Ancestry’s “U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Swedish American Church Records, 1800-1947,” I constructed my reference notes to lead with the document rather than the database. Now that I’ve used that collection many times, I’m considering reworking my citations to lead with the database.

The recent posting of QuickLesson 25 was somewhat helpful, but my situation appears to be a bit more complex. Perhaps that is just my perception...

The method of accessing an image in the État Civil records of the Archives of Paris involves using the search-engine to access to the start of a set of browsable images (eg. the start of a portion of an imaged film), then one must browse the images to locate the item-of-interest.

This results in two questions:

Warning: This is a long one.

After reviewing past discussions on EE about citing online city directories, I'm still puzzling over how best to tackle this situation: creating citations for images from a series of volumes in a library's digital collections--in this case, the New York Public Library's collection, "New York City Directories." 

Is there a rule to follow when citing references in table format? For example, in Amy Harris's "Whom Did Mary Marry? Finding Mary Browett's Multiple Marriages in Early-Nineteenth-Century Gloucestershire, England," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 109 (March 2021): 45-54. Or Ricki King, "A Father's Luching and Multiple Maiden Names: Ida King of Ralls County, Missouri, and Des Moines County, Iowa," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 109 (March 2021): 29-44. The Amy Harris article appears as though a modified short note is used.

Dear EE.

I apologize if I seem to be repeatedly asking the same question.

I'm stuck - perhaps unintentionally trying too hard to standardize in the matter of "master lists".

If, in the case of online (derivative) sources, it is appropriately conceivable to concurrently have:

Question: How does one address the issue of making a (relatively) EE compliant reference to a nameplate on a box containing cremation ashes? I have a photo of said box with the name of the person, DOB and DOD with no other information available.

Dear EE,

This is my first go at citing a newspaper article. I have consulted https://www.evidenceexplained.com/node/1679.

Reference Note: