Citation Issues

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):

Dear EE,

Dear Editor,

I have read EE 7.43 and have generally used your citation example for the OPR's when I have purchased and downloaded a copy of the church register record from the ScotlandsPeople website (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk) - maintained by the National Records of Scotland.  

tweaked slightly from 7.43 :

First Reference Note:

Ceres Parish (Fife, Scotland), Old Parish Registers, OPR 415/2, page 299, Elspeth Band, baptised 1 April 1744; National Records of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Subsequent Note:

Dear EE,

I want to check my understanding. In review of 9.32 for the NYC example (p 456), I would understand that most people with a NYC vital record would use 3 layers:

1. WHAT:  identify the overall source itself, in a vacuum:  Kings County, New York, New York, Brooklyn Birth Certificate #001, John Doe, 1 January 1961

2.  WHERE: identify the origin of the image: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

In the past, I have consulted a source on a FHL microfilm, from which I must have attained the following information about the source:

Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church, New York, New York, 1785–1893, v. 7, Greene Street marriages, 1832–1869 (transcript), p. 308, Ward-Martin marriage (1855); New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York, New York; FHL microfilm 17780.

I often have the situation in which I find information that I do not wish to automatically relegate to my research notes. In fact, sometimes, the line between material that belongs in research notes and that which belongs in formal findings is clearly blurred. In these cases, I believe that a citation should be considered. But how and using what format ...

Dear Editor;

I've read over various portions of the EE book (3rd ed.) and still am trying to come to terms with the overall purpose of each layer in multi-layered citations. This has been bothering me for a while, but I need to get this straight in my mind. My apologies, in advance, for the long posting.

Here is an actual example, crafted from my research, which I hope can be used for discussion purposes. It is based upon the QuickCheck Model, "Digital images - International Censuses (U.K.)". For the benefit of readers, this is found on p. 240.

When using Kindle books, particularly on ipad, page numbers are often not shown. Instead, there is simply a "location" number. I'm not sure if these locations are device specific or if they are consistant enough to use in place of page numbers. Any thoughts on how this might be properly cited?

I'm trying to determine why there is a difference between the way AncestryDNA and Family Finder results are cited. On the QuickSheet example, AncestryDNA results begin with "AncestryDNA Results for [name], database report..." Family Finder results begin with "FamilyFinder," database report...for [test taker anme] and [match name]... I would prefer to use the AncestryDNA example for FamilyFinder as well as it will allow me to create a specific source for each of my test takers (40+). Would there be any reason I couldn't do that?

Looking at EE 9.1 and the following guideline and examples.

I purchased a marriage certificate some years ago, and as I have been going over my previous research, have realised that I never sourced the marriage information.

I more than likely, found an index entry either of FamilySearch or Ancestry to start with, and do not have an issue with creating a citation for either of those databases. Just relooking at the FS index, no certificate number is recorded, but Ancestry do infact record one and I possibly used that when I ordered the record.