Citation Issues

I have spent the last week or two trying to analyze a 55 page pension file for the minors of a Civil War sailor on the National Archives website. The pension is strictly for the minors - neither the sailor nor the widow applied for a pension. It's a complicated file and has presented me with some questions that I am hoping you can help me with. As I think about putting citations together, I am afraid that it might get quite complicated and don’t even want to attempt one just yet.

Hi EE,

For online sources, I am attempting to use FamilySearch since they have free access to records. Can I get confirmation that I am thinking about this correctly. I see so many different ways to cite this, I hope I could get some clarification. After reviewing Chapter 6 and reviewing some examples online this is what I have come up with. 

Thanks,

Shaun 

This way of publishing might be peculiar to Germany. In any event I've never noticed it in the English speaking world.

One of my sources is a two volume publication by Jürgen Ritter entitled Garnison-Kirchenbuch Hannover 1816-1867.

It is also referred to as a "Sonderveröffentlichung", i.e. "special publication", the 28th volume of this sort published by genealogical society, Niedersächsischer Landesverein für Familienkunde. It seems that this society has a series of special publications like this.

I have upwards of seven Birth and also Baptism registrations; over 20 marriage registrations, and about 16 death and burial registrations, all from either Birmingham Warwickshire UK, or West Bromwich Staffordshire UK.

Each baptism, birth, marriage, death or burial is listed fully in its own footnote.

Is it ok to provide a cover-all reference for the repository where these are held, with a note directing reader back to the footnote?

Hi Elizabeth,

I am working on probate citations for original documents, imaged online, and accessed through Ancestry. I understand there are three parts to cite:

• The original document*
• The database and/or website that delivered the document*
• The archival location of the original, as identified by our provider.

I do have your book and have viewed other entries on the forum, especially this one.

My son recently wrote a beautiful obituary for his grandfather, my father-in-law.  It was not published in a newspaper, the family did not want that expense.  It was "published," if you will on the funeral home's website.

Some time ago, I filled out the NARA form to obtain an Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) for an individual who served in WWI. Yesterday, I received a reply -- a joyous day! Alas, the individual's OMPF probably burned up in the 1973, but there was a Final Pay Roll bearing this individual's name. I received an image of the roster (uncertified) along with a handy file on how to interpret the information in the document. Fabulous! -- I now know what unit with which he served and his enlistment and demobilization dates, and as a bonus, have a copy of his signature.

In a previous post, I noted that the following was given as an example of a First Footnote for a typical French Departmental Archive.

First Reference Note:

I am struggling with the digital image of a California State Death Certificate on FamilySearch at this link 

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89SJ-B1X5?i=1305&cc=2001287&cat=1131994

Normally I would cite this as follows:

Bibliography
California. Department of Public Health. Death Records. Los Angeles County Recorders Office. Norwalk. Digital images. FamilySearch. https:/familysearch.org : 2021-2023.

On page EE 458, "9.33 County-level Certificates" there are four example sources, two from Alabama and one each from Florida and Montana. The example reference notes for the Florida and Montana place the year in parentheses. The example reference notes for Perry County, Alabama specify the year "1908", but the year is not placed in parentheses. The example reference notes for Bibb County, Alabama don't mention a year at all.