Citation Issues

Latin abbreviations

I am citing some Parish Registers from Ireland. The register title is in Latin and for the most part the childs names are in Latin and occasionally the a parents name and sponsors name are in Latin. The priest used the following abbreviations fa for fila meaning daughter and fus for filius meaning son. Is this a common abbreviation or should it be noted in my citation.

Thank you,

Ann  

Swedish Record or How to Cite a Record Viewer

I am struggling with how to cite digital images of Swedish church records. Both of the companies that provide access to them online, ArkivDigital and Genline, require downloading a viewer to access images. How should I note this in the citation, or should I at all. Should I just state that it is a digital image and put the website for the program?

On a seperate note, Genline has digitized the FHL microfilms while ArkivDigital is digitizing the original books. Should this be noted any where or assume that by going to company's website, this can be discovered?

Penned or Stamped? (Census pages)

I don’t know if this subject has been discussed before. I have a 1940 census. For the page (or sheet) number, there is number 3 written in and a letter A already pre-printed on the sheet.

 

Is the page number, when used in the citation, considered penned because the number 3 is written? What about the letter A? In my “version” of the citation, I used 3A but didn't indicate if it was penned or stamped?

 

Thank you,

Citing transcribed records - document or database

I abstracted various newspaper records, vital records, warnings out of town and overseers of the poor records into 20+ databases. I created abstract summaries and exported them into four primary databases, then output them into pdf files and copied them into four MSWord documents and added introductory information.

I have shared the files with various individuals and organizations. One of the organizations is adding the information to their web server databases and I am providing them with copies of the abstract summaries from the 20+ databases in tab delimited files.

1841 British Census

I need some help with my citation for the 1841 England census. EE  page 303 shows an example for the 1841 census.

This is my start for my  citation;

1841 census of England, Warwickshire, [city],  [parish], folio 6, lines 5-15, William Vero household; digital image  Ancestry.com, (http://www.ancestry.com  :  accessed 24 September 2004); citing PRO HO  107/1127/10

Self-Published Works

This is like asking, "I know it looks like a duck, it quacks like a duck; but is it really a duck?"

I am trying to figure out the citation for The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy.  It certainly seems to follow the pattern for a self-published work.  But I general think of these as books that are published by a person; with only one publication and a relatively some production.

New source for me...need to know how to cite

I found a record for grooms married in the commonweath of Pennsylvania from 1885 to 1889 at http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r14-25RecordMarriages/r14-25-K-GroomInterface.htm The record that I am using is on page 16.  I have no idea how to cite this source.  Any help would be great!

 

Thank you

Shannon

Date Format

In my genealogy I use the day/month/year format, spelling out the month. I am working on some citations for newspaper microfilm. The microfilm does not have roll numbers they are labeled by a short version of the newspaper title followed by a date span. For example the microfilm has the following:

"Chaska VALLEY HERALD Jan 3, 1878-Sep 11, 1879"

The newspaper title is: The Weekly Valley Herald

In my citation I have removed the capitalization from the microfilm title. My question is should I reformat the dates for consistency or leave them as written?