Greetings:
While analyzing the citation on page 316 in Evidence Explained, 4th edition, I'm confused about the exclusion of the FSL digital film number, GDS number, and image number. Could you please clarify why these were left out?
Thank you
Hello, EE,
I need to cite a newspaper imaged at Newspapers and believe I know how to do that except for one problem. When I access the image for the first page of each of the several issues I’m citing, the image itself shows the newspaper’s name to be the Davenport Democrat. However the web site’s “frame” at the upper left corner of the image calls it the Morning Democrat, [See, by way of example, https://www.newspapers.com/image/301103983 .]
Dear EE,
Several of my ancestor's military records are in a manuscript collection. Samuel Day was a volunteer.
My source entry is for the collection. The records are not online; I paid to have photocopies made. I included the website URL as a help to finding the collection. Omitting the collection ID (see First Reference Note, below) from the Source List Entry comes from the Library's suggestion for preferred citation and possibly some QuickCheck models from EE 1st ed.
I am working through the pension file for John W. Culmer. Although this document is not explicitly identified as an affidavit, I have treated it as such. The document in question asks the pensioner to provide information about himself, his marriage, and children. It is signed, but I see no evidence of it being notarized.
I think I have it correct, but I welcome any tweaks.
I find it disconcerting that in their new cataloging scheme Family Search is disconnecting their content from the original microfilms. How can we write a proper citation without, in ES Mills' terminology, providing the "source of the source?" How do we know that a record is genuine unless we know where repositories such as Ancestry and Family Search got their images? (I know, I know: these websites are purposely setting themselves up to be publishers of record and obscuring their sources)
Here is a recent citation I created that I believe is properly complete:
Please forgive the long post, but I have several questions related to the historic letter citations covered in the fourth edition of EE.
Author's Location
Template 7 on page 123 says to handle the first reference note the following way. (I am omitting the sentence for the descriptor and using bold to call attention to my area of concern.)
Scotlands People has changed things again. The example for citing on-demand images won't work any more. The images in the image-viewer appear to now be ephemeral. They stay around in a cache for a while but then go away after some time. The citation that caught my attention is the one on page 326. It seems best to just use the cite database entry form and not attempt to use image paths.
I am starting to delve into pension records for an ancestor and his widow. I've looked at EE4 and crafted the following citations for the widow's pension:
Declaration for Widow's Pension, 5 August 1918, Elizabeth H. Culmer, widow's pension application no. 1,125,358, W.C. certificate no. 873,872, service of John W. Culmer (Sgt., Co. G, 20th Wisc. Inf., Civil War); Case Files of Approved Pension Applications, 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Hi everyone, I'd like to cite a record from the Libraries Tasmania Names Index using Evidence Explained, but am having a bit of trouble.
This is the record: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/Record/NamesIndex/1026947 : John Johnson born 22 Sep 1878
Not even sure where to start. Would it be the "Corporate Records Online Images", even though not all records have images?
Also, would I cite Names Index: Births, or just Names Index?
This is what I have made, but it is almost certainly wrong:
Hi,
I am having a bit of a concern in this citation below because it seems too long, and not quite easy to reproduce.
I do feel it needs the path on how to access the PDF that represent in this case the baptism register itself, and the online repository website is hard to navigate into for anyone not used to it.
Also, the weblink doesn't help in length of the citation, we can only access to the online repository with the full URL. Doesn't work any another way. The online repository is for the Neuchâtel State Archives in Switzerland.
