Citation Issues

Transcribed document in online archive

I'm a novice at this citation business and I am struggling to cite an online derivative. Any help would be very much appreciated.

The item in question is the transcribed text of a "Maintenance order" dated 1821 in respect of John Ford and Mary Waterhouse from original Ticehurst Parish records.

The transcription is located in an online archive called "theKeep" which has electronic transcriptions of documents from the East Sussex Records Office and other partner organisations.

ExLibris Rosetta

I was originally pointed to a source by an article published in The Genealogist. The article provided a complete citation for the book in question [as printed in the article: “Walter Clark, ed., The State Records of North Carolina: Miscellaneous, 22 (Goldsboro, N.C., 1907): 246 (Arrears of Quit Rents, Tyrrel [sic] Precinct).”]. While it is very tempting to just use the information in the article without going any further, I wanted to see if I could find the cited source to determine whether there might be additional information I could glean from it.

Citing 1940 U.S. census enumeration districts

It has become my understanding that the hyphenated enumeration district numbers in the 1940 U.S. census are comprised of a county code (before the hyphen) and the actual enumeration district number (after the hyphen). Supposedly, the pre-hyphen county code is the same throughout the county.

When citing these ED numbers, is the county name and the county code unecessarily redundant? Put another way, is it necessary to include the county code number in the ED number? I believe that my main motivation in asking this question is merely that I don't like the hyphens in my ED numbers.

How many volumes?

Undoubtedly, I'm overthinking this.

EE 12.69 states:  "When citing a multivolume work, you should state the total number of volumes immediately after the title."

However, EE 12.74, dealing with multivolume sets with successive authors or editors, allows for leaving out the number of volumes and citing the one and only volume used.

My quandary involves Abby Maria Hemenway's The Vermont Historical Gazetteer:  A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military.

Brackets versus parentheses

Would it be acceptable if I prefer to follow EE 2.58 ("Square brackets ... signify that we have added words not founds in the original source") rather than EE 14.11 ("When a paper carries either a city or state in its masthead title (but not both), put the missing place name in parentheses within the title")?

Example:  "Vermont News," St. Albans [Vermont] Daily Messenger, 22 May 1874, p. 5, col. 5.

Voter Registers

Will someone please tell me if I have botched this Reference Note citation to a Voter Register for the city of Savannah in 1871?  I accessed the information and image on ancestry.com.

Savannah, Georgia, City of Savannah Voter Registers, 1856-1896, File: “City of Savannah Voter Registers, 1871,” alphabetically arranged, Vol. A to E (1871), William Dunn, p. D, Number 98, registered in 1871 July 14; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 February 2015); Savannah, Georgia: Research Library & Municipal Archives, City of Savannah, Georgia.

 

Irish Family History Foundation - Rootsireland.ie

Hi,

Please bear with me, I am trying to tidy up my source citations and I am relatively new to Evidence Style.

I am having trouble getting my head around the citation of information regarding Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death records found at Rootsireland.ie .

I have the book 'Evidence Explained, Citing Sources from Articles to Cyberspace' and  the 'Quicksheet, Citing Online Historical Resources', however, I am still confused as to which template to apply in the case of Rootsireland.ie .

I have attached a copy of a Civil Birth Record as an example.

Local Marriage record removed to County Archive

I am having trouble writing a citation for a record of marriage (marriage license, marriage certificate and affidavit for license to marry–all-in-one) which I received from a county archive without any citation except for the cryptic "A0256(1)" which I believe refers to an archive box number. A little research on the archive website led me to a record group and series number. However, I'm having trouble actually identifying the document. I'm assuming it is a local copy since it appears to be a photocopy of a part of a book page of marriages.