I enjoy the exercise of working with the details of source and citation editing. Many thanks to The Editor for all of the hard work and generous advice given through this forum!
When citing an obituary from GenealogyBank.com do I cite it as a transcription or archive? And where in the citation does the word transcription or archive go? It's not a digital image of the newspaper. Does the page number go after the name of the newspaper or do I need to add "citing original page A-14" to the end. On subsequent notes, since there is no author do I just use "Eugene J. Shiell," obituary or do I need to add more info?
A source refers to "G.R.3", which is defined at another part of the source in a list of abbreviations to mean "grave record, Mount Auburn Cemetery." Should my reference note for the source conclude by saying "citing 'G.R.3' ['grave record, Mount Auburn Cemetery']" or by simply saying "citing 'grave record, Mount Auburn Cemetery'". Or is there a third, better alternative? Is there a need to give the location where the list of abbreviations is?
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?
I have recently researched in the indexed 1921 Canada census at Ancestry.com and note that film numbers are not part of the citations. Instead, RG 31 and a folder number are cited. I have seen this in four citations so far.
If this is the case, the new citation reference details for the 1921 Canada census might need to be included in a future reprinting of EE.
I wonder if anyone here might offer suggestions since I am working to have my source citations accurately reflect the EE style/standard. At issue is an online index of marriage records at a state level (counties transmit data to the state for statistical/archiving purposes, though actual records are still maintained at county level). I cannot find a county-level listing, so must rely on the state index (which is, of course, a derivative source). Specifically I have a relative who was married in Texas in 2009.
Need a little help.
Hello all,
I have a question about the certificate number on a death certificate I have. It is a state level certificate from New York (state). It has two numbers on it. One is a stamped five digit number in the extreme upper right hand corner. The second is a hand written five digit number just below the stamped number. This second number is written in the Registered No. slot.
Which of the two numbers is the certificate number?
I'm struggling with the citation format for online state highway maps that are not reproductions from previous printed maps.
The map in question is the Washington State Highway topographical map located at http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Publications/HighwayMap/view.htm. This map is no longer printed in paper format and distributed solely as an electronic map.
