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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?
"1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census," database, findmypast.ie (www.findmypast.ie : accessed 21 January 2016); entry for Robert McLean (age 29), Prydes Place, Penicuik Midlothian.
The example provided in 6.51 goes on to provide the source of the source, however, findmypast doesn't appear to provide the source of the source details, so I'm unsure what I should put, or if I should just end the citation as I did above.
The transcription details provides the following but I'm unsure if any of this should be in the citation.
Registration District: Penicuik
Archive reference: RG11
Piece number: -
Folio: -
Page: -
Record set: 1881 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Category: Census, Land & Substitues
Subcategory: Census
Collections from: United Kingdom
Here is the URL for the results if you wanted to check it out. Free access this weekend should allow you to view it if you register.
http://search.findmypast.ie/record?id=gbc%2f1881%2f0027653521
Thank you,
David P. Slager Jr.
David, you've done well. For
David, you've done well. For the source-of-the-source portion of the citation, you might add "citing RG11." Or, for greater clarity: "citing RG11 [UK National Archives; Kew, Richmond, Surrey]."