Citation Issues

I have seen NARA both spelled out and abbreviated in Ancestry.com census citations:

(Note: items in bold for this question only, not actually bold in published citations.)

I have a citation for an Ohio Graves Registration Card from Fold3.com:

(Note: this is a real example--for my husband's 2X GG whose last name was actually spelled "Shaffer," but it was misspelled on the card and on his marker.)

I have an original baptism record (written at the time of her baptism) from my grandmother passed down to me.  How do I cite this? I would think this is an original source created at the time she was baptized.

Another question, hopefully less detailed as I believe I am understand more of the generalized idea of EE.

If I am searching Ancestry for marriage records and I come across this 

1. Would the best approach to citing this be to use 9.7 or 4.6?

I am doing an indirect evidence case study to prove parentage. I want to mention that a survey of online trees was done but no tree was found with a source for the parental link between the two generations. I would like to simply cite the Ancestry Public Member Trees, FamilySearch Family Tree, and My Heritage Family Trees as a whole and not list every single tree that was examined. Is that a legit way to handle it? I think listing 40ish trees in a citation would be overkill but I thought I better check :) 

Hi,

I am on my fifth reading or so of your book and every time I read it or read through your blog, I seem to only get more confused.  I am a 100% Permanent & Totally Disabled Veteran, so it I do 95% of my research from home using Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, FamilySearch.com, etc....  While I would love to travel to all these amazing locations where so much data is held, it is just not that easy.  So these online providers are pretty much the best I can do.

I am working on citing a couple of immigration cards from Brazil. These cards can be found at Ancestry and FamilySearch. 

The way in which they are organized is a bit perplexing and can be confusing when you first look at them. There are two cards I am writing citations for. For clarification in my citations, I use FHL microfilm or DGS numbers instead of search paths. I do this because it is the fastest way for me to find the records at a later date.

Let me call and raise on a recently discussed item. I want to cite a section of a volume in a series (well, one of two series). What I've drafted for the first reference note is:

I have been doing genealogy for 20+ years and pretty much relied on the citations created by various software products (ancestry, MyHeritage, citation machine, etc...).  I am very much interested in making a change to a more consistent, descriptive and formalized citation style and have chosen EE.  I am struggling with this though as I want to convert over all my existing citations which I know will be lots of work, but I think the time is worth it.

Dear Editor,