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,
Hello, sorry in case of bad grammar, english isn't my native language.
I'm struggling a bit with a good way to cite "Stammbücher" from Germany. These are bound books or folder-like books with preprinted certificate forms to get filled out from the officals when births, marriages, baptisms or deaths occur in the family, given to couples at their wedding from the bureau of vital records(or bought from the couple previously itself for the wedding).
Dear Editor;
To generate the source and reference statements for my parent's marriage certificate (image attached) as part of a collection; I've tried to follow the guidance of the 3rd edition of EE, "Privately held materials," section 3.25.
Some feedback on the following attempt would be appreciated:
(Note that [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] is included as a placeholder for the full address in my personal version.)
The "Search the Online GRO Index" website has become one of my go-to sites for birth and death information in England. I realize the information given by the index is derivative and should serve as an interim source until more definitive evidence (i.e., the actual register) is obtained, but I would still like to cite it occasionally. Here's the format I've been using:
I am attempting to correctly cite an entry from the 1911 England Census where the data is imaged from the National Archives and the database from which it came is Ancestry.com.
In drafting this, I referred to EE item 6.51 (online database entries), various references in EE to layering, and other guidance on this site.
I came up with two possibilities. The first seems like too much information and the second, I feel I'm missing something:
Dear Editor;
I have a number of Canadian documents to file. The organization of the Canadian provincial level administration is a bit different than the American analog. This is making it a bit difficult to follow the "STATE-LEVEL RECORDS VITAL-RECORDS CERTIFICATE" QuickCheck Model.
Maybe trying to literally "fill-in-the-blanks" is the wrong approach. Should I just list as much identifying info as is present, proceeding from the country down to the certificate identification?
The certificate header says:
Dear Editor;
The EE section 3.24 on citing "Privately held materials" is fairly clear to me, but raises a few interesting questions about citing documents within ones own filing structure.
Dear EE,
I am using Google as a primary source to convert a regular date into a Jewish date. I want to do this because the family Bible record had the wrong Jewish date for one of the children's birthdates. The conversion is a feature Google itself offers, not a particular website. Do I cite just the search criteria used, or do I also cite the result (which is not in Hebrew characters, but transliterated to English characters)? I am using part of what I see in the EE p661 QuickCheck model.
What do you think of this (note, I use the <i> tag to indicate italics):
