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I am looking at some photographs of photographs of loose bible pages. The original photographs were donated to the John Fox, Jr. Genealogical Library, in Pairs Kentucky and can be found in the Jackson Family File.
Looking at the citations for a family file and loose bible records. I have come up with the following for the beginning of the citation my plan is to follow this with a description of the pages.
Joseph & Charlotte Jackson Family Bible, 1756-1869, loose "Family Record" pages from unknown Bible; Jackson Family File, John Fox, Jr. Genealogical Library, Pairs Kentucky; Donated by Mary Sue Glenn, Oregon, 1988.
My question is should the person who donated the photographs be listed along with when and where she photographed them.
Thank you,
Ann Gilchrest
Ann, your proposed citation
Ann, your proposed citation works fine. If this citation were to appear in a journal or a university-press publication, odds are the data on the donor would be stripped out by the editor. But in our working notes, we should record everything known about the provenance of an item. Shudder the thought, but sometimes—when thorough research turns up conflicting information—backtracking that provenance enables a researcher to define how an erroneous or even falsified record has come into existence.
(One side note: Both of your references to the Kentucky town write it as "Pairs Kentucky" with no appositive comma before and after the state. Evidence Style follows the conventional use of those appositive commas, for clarity.)