Hello! I have an image of a certified death certificate that was requested by the widow shortly after a man's death in 2004. I am having trouble figuring out if it a state or local record. Here is an image of the top and bottom of the image (I did not include the full certificate for privacy reasons):
Hello! I am working on a client report. In the 'research notes' section of the report, I have included the analysis of an 1830 census record in which three related families are all enumerated on the same page of the census. I would like to create one footnote for the combined analysis/correlation of these three households. Would I simply separate each with commas? Or would using semi-colons or some other form of punctuation be more clear? Here is my current citation which uses commas:
I want to cite a single handwritten page of family information. It is one of three loose pages that were found in a Bible and sent to me. The owner had information about the compiler of each page – his grandmother, his mother, and let’s call her Mabel, a distant cousin. Mabel’s page is the most complete and the only one that contains the information I want to cite. It seems to me that Mabel may have had access to an older family Bible with specific birth, marriage, and death dates as well as spouse names for nine children (born between 1795 and 1816).
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I am trying to reconcile how to cite un-indexed court case or probate files imaged on FamilySearch. Typically these consist of loose documents in folders.
EE QC p381 leads with the [Jurisdiction] and [Series], placing the "[item of interest]" in "quotation marks" at the end of the layer, just before the web page layer. I did not see any example in EE that accounts for or cites the file label itself. I could not find the images using the URL in the example so I cannot confirm if the documents are contained in a file or not.
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I feel like I'm over-complicating this citation for an image of a document with signatures attesting to allegiance to the U.S. from the Mississippi Territory. The document is housed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History at Jackson; the image is on their website. There's a rich treasure trove of images available at the site, so a helpful eye on these citations would be most welcome.
I'm wanting the document (image) to the lead element. I might change my mind if I find that there's more than one ancestor in this collection.
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Here I am again with another citation question.
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I have a ship passenger list that I have viewed on Ancestry.com. This is the citation that I have written:
Source List Entry (EE)
“California, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, Roll 5: 1882-1959.” Database with images. Ancestry. http://www.ancestry.com : 2008.
First Reference (EE)
In Australia (and I imaging in the US) there are often graves on private property (i.e. not in a formal cemetey). We call them lonely graves. Looking at EE 5.13 and 5.14 there is still a cemetery name listed. 5.14 says you should also note the access road. A lot of these lonely graves have NO public access. The owner of the land would have to give you permission to cross several of his fields and/or paddocks to get there. The property sometimes has a name, and it will have a street where it's main entrance is, but this may be no where near the grave.
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I have some marriage certificates and birth certificates that I purchased at the county clerk office. I am trying to cite one of those marriage records. Here is what I have done so far:
Source List Entry (EE)
California. Los Angeles County. Marriage Certificates. Registrar of Vital Statistics, Los Angeles.
First Reference Note (EE)
Los Angeles County, California, marriage certificate no. 3353 (1948), Rogers-Burn, Registrar of Vital Statistics, Los Angeles.
I am in the process of cleaning up and improving the consistency of my citation templates in my database and am looking for guidance on terminology to use with citing digital images located on FamilySearch, or other site that have not been indexed.
Many of the examples and QC Models use the term "Browsable images" to describe the item type/format, but I can also find examples where the term "Digital images" is used.
