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I've found a book that is in two volumes with the same title except that the first concludes with "Volume 1. Births" and the second concludes with "Volume 2. Marriages and Deaths." My thought is that the extra words are not part of the title and that I should not include the extra words in the citation. Do you agree?
Newonash,
Newonash,
The "second part" of each volume title is the subtitle and it definitely should be included. The issue is specifically addressed at EE 12.71, "Multivolume Works: Different Subtitles." As an example given there:
1. William Wade Hinshaw et al., compilers, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. 4, Ohio (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edwards Brothers, 1946), 111.
This is a common situation with many published works used by historical research, as with Clarence Edwin Carter's Territorial Papers or George P. Rawick's Slave Narratives.
Note also that, in these situations, the volume number is not italicized because it is not part of the formal title.