Citation Issues

I am hoping you all in this wonderful community can help with a quandary. How does one cite FamilySearch's Family Tree? Is there a specific name for it? It is not the IGI, Ancestral File, or Pedigree Resource File, all of which have citation examples in EE. I actually want to cite a source document attached to a person in the tree, but I need to know how to cite where I found it (since it wasn't through the expected channels).

Really grappling with this and I don't know why.
What exactly does "Lead Element" mean when it is used in EE?

I want to say it's the first "thing" mentioned or written when writing a citation, but not positive.

TIA

Dear Editor,

The Amsterdam City Archives provides different indexes on their website. The website itself offers no way to search all of them with one search form. But if you take the URL of one of the searches, and change one of the search parameters to 0 [zero], it searches all of the indexes at once. The archives confirmed that this trick does indeed give the correct results.

If I'm writing a report and want to cite that a search of all the indexes did not turn up any results, how would I cite that search?

Citation examples are given for invididual documents from a Civil War Pension file e.g. Widow's Declaration. Is there any way to shorten the citation when citing to a SECOND different document from the same pension file?

I see examples of subsequent citation formats for the SAME document, but what if you are citing to a second different document from the same pension file? Is there any way to shorten it w/o given the entire long citation to the entire pension file and online database?

Thanks,

SHR

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: