Citation Issues

Hello,

I have a marriage record that I am trying to cite.  It is on Ancestry.com and from Tennessee, U.S. Marriage Records, 1780-2002.

Here is how Ancestry cites it:

Source Citation 

Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville, TN, USA; Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002

Description

Year: 1838 Jun-1850 Nov: Marriages, (Refilmed) 2

Source Information

I am hopeful that someone here can guide me. I use RootsMagic 8 and have been using the Sources provided in the program or those from Ancestry, etc. for the actual Source. In viewing EE, I would like to do a better job of sources/citations but now I am confused.

In RootsMagic, a Master Source is a general record that may be used again and again. Where my confusion lies is in how to input a correct Source Citation for the specific person, that a specific part of a Master Source refers to. Do I simply customize the Footnote or does it go somewhere else?

Hello!

I have looked for a birth record for one of my ancestors for about a year and a half and I finally found it on Archion!  I also found records for her parents and brothers and sisters there so I want to make sure that I have a correct understanding of the citation for these records before I gather all of them.  I am not sure I am putting the correct information for the Record component of the Source List Entry for this particular group of records.

Source List Entry

Hello,

I have read through the previous posts regarding Find A Grave and I see an example of what I have been using.  Then I looked at the example in your book of the QuickCheck Model on Grave Markers: Images Online.   Since I am new at creating the citations myself (not relying on software), I am still unsure if I am doing it correctly. Below is the citation that I have made using that example.

Source List Entry (EE)

In Quick Lesson 26, EE walked through citing a death certificate from Ancestry resulting in the citation looking like this:

Hello,

I have a death certificate from New York State.  I wrote to the county office (Monroe County) to request this certificate.  It is a copy of a Certificate of Death issued by the New York State Department of Health.  At the bottom of the certificate it says:  This Certificate must be filed with the local registrar within 72 hours after death.  On the side of the certificate there is a green stamp that says:  Genealogy Use only not an official copy.

Elizabeth,

How do I cite a transcript from a NY town Register of Deaths? It was provided by the town Registrar of Vital Statistics. Since it is not a photocopy of the register itself, just a transcript, citing the register doesn't seem right, nor does citing it as a certificate, though it is dated and signed by the Registrar.

Based on the NY State index of deaths, there are probably a couple of errors (perhaps typos) in the transcript, but won't know for sure until Albany gets around to my request (still pending after almost two years!).

Thanks,

Greg

Dear EE,

I didn't think I would be back on the forum so soon after my last post; this time I am looking for a review or tweaks of a citation that I have crafted for a new source :-).

Recently, I ordered an image from the Family History Library Record Lookup Service - https://www.familysearch.org/en/family-history-library/family-history-library-records-look-up-service

This is a follow on to a previous topic (Browsable Images @ Family Search):

https://www.evidenceexplained.com/node/1984

This is just a fun one as we sometimes have to "break" some rules. One of the assignments in a class I am taking is to create a DNA proof argument based on DNA and paper trail evidence provided to the class. We are, however, supposed to create the proof argument without doing any additional research (i.e. the task is to use the information provided and focus on the proof argument).