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I have been trying to figure out how to cite a French Civil Records (my description) website. The Genealogical Society of Utah microfilmed the records and is/was available to rent. They filmed the registers located in what is now the Basses-Atlantiques region; at the time (1615-1909) it was the Basses-Pyrénées region.
So I am looking at microfilm of a register/book on a website that used Church then Civil records. I'm stuck at which source do I use? I know this is not how the source is, it's my notes for now of where I got the information.
Archives Départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil, http://earchives.le64.fr/ead.html?id=FRAD064003_IR0002, Herrère, 1615-1889, Image 1126 of 1532.
I can figure out the citation part, but not the source. I also have trouble explaining what I need, obviously.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
LKSearcy, I'm not sure I
LKSearcy, I'm not sure I understand you when you say "I can figure out the citation part, but not the source." A citation is a sentence in which we identify our source. If we can't figure out our source, then we can't do the citation.
Let's approach the issue in other terms: since you are using these online, your citation has to identify two things: (1) the original record—for which all essential information is missing above; and (2) the website where you obtained the record.
Have you read these two sections of EE?
7.39 offers three pages of discussion and examples that will help you understand the creation and maintenance of the church records that underpin France's état-civil (b-m-d registrations). 9.49 discusses and demonstrates the civil copy, which is what you are actually citing. The discussions should help you understand the records themselves and the examples cover a variety of formats in which we find them. Spcifically 9.49 provides the format for citing Layer 1, the original record.