Citation Issues

I have a published book that is a family tree and stories of a branch of my family. It was compiled and published by a committee who collected information from various branches of the family. None of the information has been 'sourced' or 'cited' in the book. Although some sources can be infured as acknowledgement is given to some people and repositories for their assistance. Information in the book has been collected from personal knowledge of family members. Not all 'chapters' have an individual listed as responsible for collecting and collating the data for the publication.

I have recently been purchasing images from the https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ website, and feel pretty comfortable with EE 9.56 for citing images from the statutory registers.

However with the OPR's, I am a little confused. To clarify, I am wanting to cite 'images' and not the database.

EE 7.43 clearly explains the cataloging system used by the GROS, which corresponds with research assistance file of the NRS : http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//research/list-of-oprs/list-of-oprs-399-459.pdf

I'm trying to resurrect points made in a previous forum discussion, as best I can, that was lost during an outage of the Amazon Cloud server around 4 Aug 2016 (see https://www.facebook.com/evidenceexplained/posts/1095977760477605).

I have a citation to a collection of abstracts, or perhaps transcriptions, or perhaps both! of newspaper death notices.  I would like to include both the date of death and the date of the newspaper publication in my citation.

I think this citation captures what's needed, but I'm concerned that the third layer ("citing...") that I added to include the publication date is mostly redundant.  Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you,

Brian

Another descendant of my great grandfather has uploaded numerous family photos and other documents on Ancestry, and her family tree and many others identify him with a first name that I consider to be undocumented. (This name is not used in any document she has uploaded, or anywhere else I have ever found.) When writing about him, I am only stating that a family researcher has identified his name as _____   ________ and that numerous Ancestry trees have recorded it as such.

How do I footnote the search of the Ancestry trees and the prevalence of the name? 

I am getting my degree in Family History.  In one of my classes we are writing our family history and I have to give citations for things that I have personal knowledge of, such as my cousin's birthdays.  I don't have birth certificates for them but I know their birthdays.  How do I cite this in my history?

I have been wrestling with this issue and just can't find how to resolve it. In my particular city directory (Lakeland, Florida, 1925), it comprises of other smaller cities of which Winter Haven is one of those cities and the person of interest is on page 39 of Winter Haven city directory. I of course using Ancestry database. "U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 Oct 2016), entry for Robert H. Bolen household; citing "Lakeland, Florida, 1925 (Jacksonville, Florida: R. L. Polk & Co., 1925)," Winter Haven city - page number 39.

I have in my possession a digital image of what is clearly a microfilm image of a 'Statistical Return of Marriage' in Quebec Canada for a marriage that took place in 1927; it was provided by a distant cousin who can't remember its proveance.

These documents are not now available online (although they may have been previously) and 3200 miles is a long way to go to consult the microfilm; copies can only be ordered by people named in the document (for privacy reasons).

The Registry of Vital Records and Statistics of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania recently was so kind to send me a "true copy" of the Delayed Return of Birth of Theodore Gadek, born in 1909.  This "Certificate of Vital Record," came with an attachment explaining that the state file number is 146 and the that record was documented by a baptismal certifice.  Earlier the Town of Adams had sent me a photocopy of the Delayed Certificate of Birth that they have in their records.

I have a slightly unusual question about references to the same image in an online article. You'll have to bear with me while I try and untangle what I think I'm trying to achieve ...

I want to display three images of the same document: one full and two heavily cropped for effect and the for the lead image. The proveance of the image is quite complicated so I only want to put that in a reference note once, and then use something like hereinafter to cite it again for the other instances.