Hello. My niece had a baby in February. As the mother, she completed the Registration of Birth form to be submitted to the province. She took a photo of that signed form before submitting it and sent it to me. I'm waffling as to whether I cite this as a personal artifact or as a provincial-level vital record.
I crafted a citation and decided to see if I could get back to my record following my citation. Within the record set, FamilySearch gives us this name for citing the collection –"México, Tamaulipas, registros parroquiales, 1703-1964." When I went to the FamilySearch search page and pasted the collection name (in quotes above) it doesn't return any results. Ultimately, I need to start typing Mexico, Tamaulipas... and collection suggestions populate that actually call the collection "Mexico, Tamaulipas, Catholic Church Records, 1703-1964".
Hi everyone, I am trying to form a proper citation for the birth record of "Hugh Byrne" found on the right side of the record here: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-9Z1H?cat=580583
I've formulated two versions of the citation and am unsure in which order is the correct way, the orignal location first and then FamilySearch info, or the FamilySearch info followed by "citing" ... etc. with the original info. I'm sure I've made other mistakes as well, please let me know!
Luckily for me, the 2 small churches in Indiana that my German emigrant ancestors attended still have their old record books (albeit, one of them took the pages out of the books when the history committee set about translating them for publication). Anyway, one of the churches had them on their website previously. My reference note ended up looking like this:
So I've brought up using WVCulture (West Virginia Vital Records) before. For reference, I tend to lead with the site since I have lots of records from it. Here is an example reference note:
for image here: http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11456351&Type=Marriage
I'm creating a presentation, and for a bit of humor and to make a point, i'm quoting from the song "Cecilia," by S&G [yes that makes me slightly past youngster :)]. I've got two thoughts:
1. Just quote the song
Paul Simon, "Cecilia," (Columbia, 1970).
2. Add a website that displays the lyrics
Paul Simon, "Cecilia," (Columbia, 1970); lyrics at SongLyrics (https://www.songlyrics.com/simon-garfunkel/cecilia-lyrics/ : accessed 14 April 2022).
Dear Elizabeth,
The example you use at the top of p. 141 (Section 3.26) is extremely useful on a number of fronts.
My issue concerns this record, which I highly doubt I would have ever found, had it not been for a kindhearted FS user, who posted their discovery of this record here.
EE 3.24-3.30 covers the basic elements and formats to cite family artifacts in private possession. What is becoming even more and more prevalent since the publication of the revised third addition, is the ease of carrying around our cell phones to digitize the artifacts.
Canadian Voters Lists are available on microfilm at the Library and Archives Canada (LAC), but they are far easier to access via Ancestry. Ancestry has imaged the LAC microfilms and has cited the LAC film numbers. The imaged pages, bear a stamp indicating the "page" [microfilm frame number]. This is consistent with the way LAC has catalogued the material on its site. In short; the film number and frame number uniquely identify a page within a jurisdiction and year.
Looking for guidance on when to place the emphasis on the document or the provider.
