Citation Issues

Ancestry's yearbook collection can be accessed in multiple ways: through searching for a specific person who has been indexed, or by browsing through state > city > school > year. I came across an example where the name of the high school on the yearbook itself (Enola High School) doesn't match the title that Ancestry has provided (East Pennsboro Area High School). I'm thinking that it's important to include both pathways: if someone wanted to look for the yearbook in the Enola Public Library or on eBay, they'd need the actual school name.

I understand that subgroups should be a part of citations to records in the National Archives. I've noticed that records in the National Archives Catalog (in the infoormation sidebar) list the Record Group, Series, and File Unit, but do not give you the Subgroup. Am I missing this somewhere? Also, I look through the guide and found the list of finding aids pertaining to Preliminary Inventories, but I have been unable to locate the actual PIs themselves.

For example, this one...

Here's one I've wondered about.

I have run across several census records where no civil division or county subdivision (such as a town, township, district, etc.) was recorded. How should this be addressed in the citation? Does the way this should be handled vary based on the year?

For example, the entire 1850 Montgomery Co., NC census has no county subdivisions of any kind listed. There's a blank on each page for listing this very thing ("Free Inhabitants in ___________ in the County of..."). I feel like the citation should address this using something along the lines of ...

I have used data from an Ancestry database titled "North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976." It contains images of NC death certificates from microfilm at the NC State Archives. The first part of the citation is straightforward...

"North Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976," digital image, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 April 2018), William C. Smith, 6 September 1958, Anson County;

Hi all,

I just recently purchased the book to help with creating accurate footnotes and a bibliography for my family history book, and I'm brand new to the forums (this is my first post!). I did a search for Getty Images which didn't seem to turn up any results so I'm posting here hoping for some insight regarding a citation.

I'm trying to cite an image of a map found here: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/map-of-europe-1877-royalty-free-illustration/171355945

Hello,

I've been using the Barbour Collection to find B/M/D records from Connecticut.

I've just come to the realization that I've been drawing conclusions from it that it doesn't actually support.

For example, Dan Hill is listed in the Wallingford records as being born 14 January 1734 but is also listed in the Goshen records.

From other records I can show that it's probable that the Wallingford records are the original birth record, so I concluded that Wallingford was the birth location.  I now think that conclusion was wrong.

Dear EE,

I am doing a citation from Family Search, example below.

West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F1B5-D6X: 10 March 2018), Ida Ruziska in entry for Joseph A. Sr. Ruziska, 14 Apr 1933; citing Monongalia, West Virginia, County Records, 5187, county courthouses, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 1,953,773.

Do you use the information below in citing your sources?  It took me a while to figure out what it all means.

ARK-  The archival resource key (61903)

Dear Editor:

I am citing a deed image online on a state/county site. Here is an example of what I'm doing:

Massachusetts. Plymouth County. Old Colony Books. Plymouth County Registry of Deeds. Digital images. Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth County Register of Deeds Search. titleview.org/plymouthdeeds/ : 2018.

I wasn't able to find anything identical to what I am citing, so I combined the Quick Check Model on p. 494 with 10.6 Basic Formats: Image Copies Online Images of Microfilm (FamilySearch), p. 500.

As an Australian, I am somewhat quite (very) inexperienced when it comes to citing US records, so excuse me if this appears to be a question that has been asked/answered before. I did look through the search function on the forum to see if anyone else had asked the same or had a similar query.

I know EE does not make comment on genealogy software issues; I totally understand that, because forum members use many different programmes. But for the record I use Legacy and I have overidden the first reference note to add the 2nd layer.