Dear Editor,
Recently, Ancestry.com made a change in the User’s experience when merging a record from their record collection into an Ancestry Member Tree (AMT) (online tree) or the Family Tree Maker program, Version 2014 (FTM2014).
The Patch Notes for FTM2014 are HERE:[1]
Up to now the online images of FHL microfilm I've used have been GSU (FHL) films of original records.
I've now run across an FHL microfilm that appears to be a copy of a preservation microfilm made by a state agency. The microfilm header has the FHL film number but does not have the usual GSU filming information, but rather has information from the state agency. There's no clear mention by FamilySearch that the FHL microfilm is a copy of another microfilm, however.
Is it appropriate to add the agency microfilm to the citation as:
In an effort to come up with a citation for a draft registration card for WWII found at Ancestry, I am looking at EE 11.33 (second and third editions). I would like to begin with my questions about the second edition example and I would appreciate very much your comments to the following:
Christopher Ferraci (2nd edition)
In section 11.33 Military: Draft Registrations, it lists the following source list entry:
“World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918.” Database and images. Ancestry.com. http://www.ancestry.com : 2007.
My question in in regards to the listing in the source list entry of the year of access. If one finds records in this database over the course of a few years, it would seem redundant to have a source list with the following entries:
I continue to be uncertain about the typical or appropriate or better way to cite certain aspects dealing with census images.
I am looking at the QuickCheck Model Microfilm: Population Schedules 1880-1940 on page 248 (third edition).
The first reference note includes both page 246-B (stamped) and sheet 12-B.
I am trying to construct a citation for an online image of a typescript (published) that's a collection of abstracts of wills. I would like to include the citation to the original source given in that collection.
Since this is an online image, I thought the citation should lead with the item in the image (as if I'm citing the original). I couldn't figure out how to cleanly include the citation to the original records, so I rearranged the layers of the citation, and ended up this way:
I think I have a doozy of a citation problem for you.
I am trying to write a reference note to a Savannah, Georgia cemetery & burial register on Ancestry.com.
The database on Ancestry.com is titled “Savannah, Georgia Cemetery and Burial Records, 1852-1939.”
So, if I put my ancestor's name, Lizzie Sample into the search fields, an entry comes up for her on the results page. For that image I wrote a citation like this:
I have been searching and searching and I am just not sure how to deal with this at all. I'm trying to create a citation/template my my sources from the Tanguay Collection. I have multiple digital images that I have downloaded but I'm having difficulty deciding how to even start. Should it just be treated as an book with online images? I do realize that if a website has reproduced the copy online I will need to cite that webpage and not the item directly but I'm just not sure what category it would fall under.
Any direction would be much appreciated.
I contacted the Smith Library of Regional History in Oxford, Ohio for assistance in obtaining information on a person who had taught at the local university in the 1830's. In turn, they contacted the university's archives which sent them a two page paper that had been prepared at some point in the past which extracted and compiled references to this person from the university's board of trustees' meeting minutes journals and various other publications about the university. This two page paper was then forwarded on to me as an attachment to an email from the regional library manager.
How best to cite an original personally held document (baptism cert.) for which there is either a record entry or copy of the certificate in a church (Anglican) archive or record repository. Seems there is no way of knowing if the archived item is an entry in a record or a copy of the actual certificate.
Thanks!
