Citation Issues

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I have (and currently cannot find!) a photocopy of handwritten, folder-bound booklets that a distant cousin wrote in 1975 when she was in her 80s. Most of the writing was to document our common ancestors' descendants, although there is a little bit about where they came from, why, and church memberships. I have written before using information from this source and am transferring it to a new article.

From EE 10.30 example 3, I formed this long form will book citation. The will book contains transcripts of original wills. It is located in the Hancock County, Indiana, Clerk's office in Greenfield:

     29. Hancock County, Indiana, Will Book 1: 183-184, Coonrod S. Coon; Hancock County Clerk, Greenfield.

I have run into several cases in which a birth, marriage, or death occurred in late December and was not recorded until the following January. It makes sense to me to include both the event year and the year the event was recorded in a citation. What is the usual practice?

Also, is it acceptable to include the full date of the event in these cases, as I'm inclined to do?

Thanks.

Lesley 

Hello,

The sources held by the Danish National Archives (on- and offline) are all categorized by creator of the source ("arkivskaber") and series ("arkivserie"). For instance, the 1835 census of the population of Schleswig is categorized as follows:

Creator: Rentekammeret Danske Afdeling, Tabelkommissionen. ["Rentekammeret" was a state-level administrative unit dealing with financial matters.]

Series: Folketælling [census] 1835, Slesvig

I am using the following digitized book from Google Books.

I have two questions:

1) Do I need to cite Google Books' source, in this case the Harvard College Library, Charles Elliott Perkins Memorial Collection? I suspect not. But Google Books does specify the date of digitization.

I need to cite a death certificate found in the new Ancestry.com database for Indiana death certificates. Of course, Ancestry's source information isn't super helpful, but from what is in its source area for the database and my own analysis of the record and images themselves, I have determined the following:

I have an 1860 census page with two penned numbers.  One is written on a line on the left hand side after the words Page No.

Page No. ________

The other is on the right hand side.

Is the one on the left the enumerator's number and the one on the right the Census Bureau's number?

I can't attach the image because it is larger than 1 MB.  Maybe this link will work.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBSD-9FGX?i=42&wc=QZ2C-Y5V%3A1589429312%2C1589424992%2C1589423918%3Fcc%3D1473181&cc=1473181

I am trying to determine how to cite correspondence that I received from a person through 23andMe's private messaging system. The messages also come to my email address, and since our initial messages, I know the person's private email and name, but the two emails I will be citing were from when we were still writing through 23andMe.

I had such a nice message all written up a few days ago, but it was one that got lost in the server failure (I'm sure that was much more frustrating to you than to me - and I wondered why I was getting no answer).

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How would I cite a Red Book article from the edition published by Ancestry online? Here is a link to the Red Book online page:

https://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php?title=Red_Book:_American_State,_County,_and_Town_Sources#Red_Book_Online