Citation Issues

Dear Editor,

I wanted to ask a question about why different QCM show dates in parenthesis, yet "similar items" are not.

Journal Articles show dates in parenthesis, QCM 779, 780, 781.

Magazine Articles show dates in parenthesis, QCM 782.

Newspaper Articles show dates in parenthesis, QCM 784

But Newspaper Articles, QCM 785, 786 are not.

I have read 2.70, 14.7 and 14.9, but I still don't understand why some dates are shown in parenthesis and others are not.

I know there was a similar question recently regarding this issue but I think the foreign language confused me. I know there are supposed to be layers to a citation. 

I guess in this case, that would be the original document. Then the layer when that document was microfilmed by the NC Archives? Then the layer where those records were digitized and a database was created by a third party. Or maybe I have them in the wrong order?

Frederick Godcharles wrote a syndicated daily column for newspapers. The article I'm citing appeared in multiple Pennsylvania newspapers on 16 September 1924.  I chose this newspaper because I was capturing the image and this newspaper had the clearest print and the most compact column form.

FHL DGS 7595725 ("Town and vital records, 1727-1892") (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9NW-RK5) includes images of a volume entitled "Births, Marriages, Deaths: Town of Kennebunk" (book cover is image 7).  This appears to be, at least in part, a Record Copy (EE, 1st ed., 1.27 and 8.5), rather than an original register, based on my assessment that over 100 years of birth records (1745-1883, images 11-59) appear to be in the same handwriting.  Having said that, there are many additional entries, especially in the later years, that are of others' writing.

Hello,

I'm wondering if there has been any discussion about changing the way genealogists refer to the 1850 and 1860 schedules. By referring to them as Population and Slave Schedules, and being mutually exclusive, we are implying that the enslaved were not members of the population. If we refer to them as Free Inhabitant and Slave Inhabitant Schedules, we are at least acknowledging the enslaved's humanity as inhabitants or part of the population.

Ann

Building a citation for records found through a search engine on one web site which provides a name search capability to a second website which hosts archives containing the actual images.

Hi all, I would love for some advice on how to cite naturalization records that I received from the USCIS genealogy division. These documents are not in any databases (that I have seen), but I don't really know how to cite them as part of my own "archive." Would appreciate any help!

The item I'm trying to cite is a digital reprint of a numbered copy of a well-known self-published book. The original author is deceased and the rights have passed to a regimental museum, which allowed a study group to publish the book on the Internet Archive. Therefor, the reprinted copy contains a few pages of lead-in showing provenance and copyright information. In all other respects it is a true copy of the original.

Regarding the some times seen copyright in the footer of a report or paper, can you please elaborate on when and how that should be used?

Example: Tom Jones' Mastering Genealogical Proof, Appendix A, p 103, "© Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL,...."

Thank you.

Curious how to handle a citation for this one. A few years ago I order a certified Death Certificate from the NYC Municipal Archives. The certificate is dated 1901 and labeled at the top "State of New York, Certificate and Record of Death". However, this is a local-level certificate. The death took place at the Soldiers and Sailors home in New Brighton, New York which is located in the borough of Staten Island. That said the certificate does not show that it was filed locally and no where do I see a label for Staten Island - although there is an illegible stamp at the top.