Citation Issues

I have a general question when citing to a document from a Civil War Widow's pension file retrieved from an online database such as Fold3.

Does your citation begin with the database information or the document information then followed by the database citation?

I have read EE sections on this and I have seen it both ways in a layered citation.

Thanks for any advice.

SHR

Good morning,

In 1980 my grandmother gave me a booklet of 63 pages of typed family group sheets.  It has a title page, with the author’s name (my Great-great aunt).  It also includes annotations written in the 1960’s + 70’s by my grandmother, and other annotations written in the early/mid 1980’s by me.  (Yes, I started ‘Old School’ and am into the fourth year of cleaning up sources of my 40 year old mess.)

My first instinct was to Source this as an Artifact – Family Records (Non-Bible).  However, because it has a title page do I cite it as a book?

Dear Editor,

I have been following two recent Citation Issues user forum questions, specifically in the area of the use of a URL. The one I read this morning, suggesed using a longer form of the URL, directly to the web page of the information being cited. While the other, the URL entry stayed at the web site level. 

I am trying to cite a church publication that was published weekly.  This publication contains elements of a newspaper and a journal.  I think that citing the publication as a journal makes for a more easily understood citation, but I may be missing something.

Citing as a "newspaper":

At the bottom of each memorial is a new link that, when clicked, will give you a source citation for it. In my opinion, Find A Grave nearly gets it right.

Here is what Find A Grave gives for Ellen Rider (memorial 34455016).

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I use Evidentia to catalog my sources and have been working on creating templates for sources that Evidentia doesn't supply templates for and am trying to make them as EE compatible as possible. For the Ancestry database U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2469) I created a template that gives me a citatation of:

Greetings,

I recently requested an 1894 marriage license from the New York State archives in Albany, NY. I just received the record, and it says "Certificate of Marriage, City of Syracuse, County of Onondaga, State of New York" in the document header (printed in official looking font). 

In terms of Evidence style, is this a State Level Record? Or Local Records, Files Moved to State Archives?

Thanks!

What if I want to cite nearly five years' issues of an entire newspaper?   I (physically) have original printings of each issue published during the Civil War the newspaper my ancestor printed/edited.   I'm NOT referencing specific information in any particular issue; rather, I'm stating in my narrative that descendants of the editor still own these pages. 

I just returned from a lovely research voyage to the Nova Scotia Archives and I am working through my finds to create source citations and add information to my genealogy databases. Most of the items I located are taken from microfilm, some created by the archive itself and others acquired from other places like GSU. The microfilmed records have their own issues, but aren't really that tricky, I think. Should I identify them by the roll numbers assigned by the Nova Scotia Archives, even if they are filmed by GSU or FHL? Should I include both if necessary?

I recently found a reference on Ancestry to a marriage record I have difficulty finding.  It was a database, and with the information provided, I was able to contact the county clerk's office and quickly received an email copy with the information provide.  I think what is important was that I had previously contacted the county clerk's office directly and they had performed a search for me that came up negative. But once I had the Ancestry information, mispellings and all, they were able to find the record almost immediately.