Citation Issues

Grave marker citation

My question is likely an issue of personal preference, but I would like some input and advice. I currently use the following format for rural grave marker citations...

Source List

Liberty HIll Baptist Church Cemetery (Montgomery County, North Carolina, 5.5 WSW of Troy on SR 1134). Grave marker.

Reference Note

Liberty Hill Baptist Church Cemetery (Montgomery County, North Carolina, 5.5 WSW of Troy on SR 1134), grave marker, Julia Wade, photographed March 2012.

 

how to cite

I wrote to the Massachusets secritarty of state and they provided a  "copy of record of death" for someone who died in 1850.  Given how I understand records work from that erra, I think they consulted the registry and filled out the certificate.  They provided the year, volume, page and item number for the record.  I'm just not sure what model to use.  It's an official document with seal, so I'm not sure if I should cite it as a certificate or as a register model.

Thanks for your help!

 

Only one source list entry for digital images of the same newspaper found in two online content providers?

I have found two different online content providers of digital images of the same newspaper (neither one being an online archive by that newspaper).  Based on the example in EE (3rd), #14.22, at the bottom of page 808, it appears to me that it's appropriate or okay for me to have a single source list entry, referring just to the newspaper, with the online websites simply showing up in the various reference notes.  Is that correct?  Thanks.

Dennis

User-uploaded content to Ancestry family trees

I'm attempting to cite a newspaper clipping that was uploaded as an image to an Ancestry family tree. I've tried to combine the citation for a newspaper clipping (EE 3.36) with some of the good ideas I've seen on other threads on these forums about citing Ancestry family trees (https://www.evidenceexplained.com/content/re-citation-ancestry-family-trees-actually-i-think-theyre-unproven ; https://www.evidenceexplained.com/content/ancestrycom-public-member-photographs), to come up with the following:

Jurisdiction/Location Parentheses vs. Commas

Dear Editor,

My friend and fellow genealogist and I are pondering the lack of parentheses around part of the location/jurisdiction in most cases in EE, as opposed to their use in 2.31 and 7.12, for example. Here are reference notes from 2.31 and 7.12:

2.31

1. Christian County (Kentucky), 1799 Tax Book, List 2; Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfurt; FHL microfilm 7,926.

and

7.12

2. St. Mary’s Church (New Orleans, Louisiana), Marriage Book 3, p. 91, Guérin-Mailloux; Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Complex citation issue

Hello,

I have digitally created a "collage" of a number of documents and photographs. I am trying to write a citation for the image. This is what I have come up with. Any nits would be appreciated. My plan is to include all the information below in the discription field on an Ancestry tree.

Thank you,

Ann C Gilchrest

 

Who is the publisher, really? And which publication location?

Dear EE,

I'm working on a citation for information I am using from the Kindle copy of the 50th Anniversary Edition book Genealogy Standards by the BCG. The copyright and publisher information at location 3 reads as follows:

Copyright © 2014
Board for Certification of Genealogists
P. O. Box 14291
Washington, D.C. 20044

Office@BCGcertification.org

Published by Ancestry.com,
an imprint of Turner Publishing Company

424 Church Street • Suite 2240 • Nashville, Tennessee 37219

Citing a Kindle book with no page numbers

Dear EE,

I searched for this topic on the site, yet couldn't find it.

I am using a Kindle book as a source, but it has no page numbers, only locations. Would it be "safe" to use the location of my reference in my citation, perhaps specifying that it is a location, such as "location 253" (shortened to "loc. 253" in subsequent short notes) with all else for electronic book citation remaining equal? Clearly, I can't use a page number.

Thoughts and input appreciated.

eevande