Tax rolls with online images

By mbcross on Sun, 10/20/2024 - 08:51

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I've crafted the following citation for a tax roll in Grayson County, Texas, for J.J. McHale, but I'm not sure whether to include the pagination from the original source (p. 142), and if so, where? I know not to include it in the same layer as the information about the online source.

"Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910," database and images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1827575 : accessed 20 Oct 2024), Grayson county > 1894 > images 284-285, J.J. McHale; citing Comptroller's Office, State Archives, Austin.  

Submitted byEEon Sun, 10/20/2024 - 11:54

mbcross,

Have you seen the example for citing Texas tax rolls, used as FamilySearch images, at EE4 §10.19?  That example leads with a citation to the tax roll itself in Layer 1, with the database cited in Layer 2:

First Reference Note
       1. Ellis County, Texas, 1866 Tax Roll, page 14 verso, Redding Sessums; imaged, “Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1837–1910,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1827575 : accessed 1 October 2023) > Ellis County > 1866 > image 27 of 50; citing “State Archives, Austin.”

The page number appears in the layer with the roll, immediately before you cite the person who appears in that roll.

To turn this around and emphasize the database, as in your example, Layers 1 and 2 would be consolidated into one, in which the page number would be handled this way:

        1. “Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1837–1910,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1827575 : accessed 1 October 2023) > Ellis County > 1866 > image 27 of 50, depicting page 14 verso, Redding Sessums; citing “State Archives, Austin.”

 

So something closer to this? I am getting the "citing" layer straight from the FS collection link; should it be in quotes as in your example?

"Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910," database and images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1827575 : accessed 20 Oct 2024), Grayson county > 1894 > images 284-285, showing p. 142, J.J. McHale; citing Comptroller's Office, State Archives, Austin.