Citation Issues

Year on Vital Record Citation

In citing a death certficate, which year do you use when the event date and filing date do not match? I have one where a death occurred in August 1944, but the official "date received" stamp is January 1945. I've always assumed it was the year of the event, but now that I have a record with two different years, I'm not certain which one is the proper one to use. 

Affidavit of Family Bible records in DAR supporting documentation

I have received a DAR supporting documentation file that includes 3 different affidavits for long-lost family bibles. Here’s the citation I’ve come up with for them:

Bible and Cemetery Records of Catherine Edwards and Family, affidavit of Mrs. C. E. Austin [Erma Tradewell Austin] in documentation file supporting Membership Application of Susan Tradewell Lopau (National no. 518297) on David Secor Sr. (1721-1791, New York), submitted 29 Apr 1966; National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Office of the Registrar General, Washington, D.C.

Court documents with no punctuation

I've been transcribing a document related to a fourth greatgrandmother which is part of a court case file for a case heard in the Charleston District Court [SC] Court of Common Pleas. This is a photocopy of the original record obtained from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Old citations that cannot be replicated anymore

In December 2014 I created a citation for a person of interest appearing in a Dutch database.  My original citation read,

Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, birth record 1884, no. 989, Johannes van Santen, 16 December 1884; database, Delft Archief, Digitale Stamboom Delft, (http://www.archief.delft.nl : accessed 8 December 2014). query: registry office from 1812: birth, town/city: Delft, achtenaam: Santen, voornaam: Johannes.

Findmypast.ie census collections

I have accessed a census collection on Findmypast.ie, and I'm wondering how I would go about citing the transciption results.  I've gotten familiar with citing digital images of U.S. censuses, but Scotland doesn't have images available on the website, only a transcription of what that the census says.

Because the results are a transcription held in a database, I am leaning towards modeling my citation after the example provided in EE (2nd edition) section 6.51(Online Database (Ancestry)).

Does this appear to be adequate?

Issued certificate vs. privately held artifact

When does a certificate, birth/marriage/death, go from becoming a state/city issued certificate to a privately held artifact. 

I have many of these certificates, some which I inherited, some I have ordered myself.   

In all cases I am questioning, I have the physical paper in my possession.  Does this automatically make it an artifact? 

Or if I’ve ordered them they are an artifact, and I inherited them they are a state/city issued certificate?

Thank You,

Debbie

Citation for Naturalization Record from Ancestry

I would appreciate feedback from this forum and EE on my crafting of the citation.  I have read EE and hope I have done this correctly.  My source is a naturalization record from Ancestry for an individual Hyman Tolinsky, file 134167.  Here is what I have created.

Library being digitized - how to update citations

The Arizona State Genealogical Library was boxed up and moved to an archive building (about 20,000 cataloged items).  The plan is to digitize the Arizona related items and items out of copyright and then dispose of them.  The library has indicated that once the items are disposed of they will be deleted from the catalog.  In the meantime, the catalog information hasn't been changed to reflect the new location of the materials.  Should I use the catalog information for the citation or should I update my citation to show the new location?