Citation Issues

Song lyrics

I'm creating a presentation, and for a bit of humor and to make a point, i'm quoting from the song "Cecilia," by S&G [yes that makes me slightly past youngster :)]. I've got two thoughts: 

1. Just quote the song 

Paul Simon, "Cecilia," (Columbia, 1970).

2. Add a website that displays the lyrics

Paul Simon, "Cecilia," (Columbia, 1970); lyrics at SongLyrics (https://www.songlyrics.com/simon-garfunkel/cecilia-lyrics/ : accessed 14 April 2022). 

Citing family bible notes from a DAR publication found on FamilySearch

Dear Elizabeth, 

The example you use at the top of p. 141 (Section 3.26) is extremely useful on a number of fronts.  

My issue concerns this record, which I highly doubt I would have ever found, had it not been for a kindhearted FS user, who posted their discovery of this record here.

Citing personal digital images of private family holdings

EE 3.24-3.30 covers the basic elements and formats to cite family artifacts in private possession. What is becoming even more and more prevalent since the publication of the revised third addition, is the ease of carrying around our cell phones to digitize the artifacts.

Citing Canadian Voters Lists

Canadian Voters Lists are available on microfilm at the Library and Archives Canada (LAC), but they are far easier to access via Ancestry. Ancestry has imaged the LAC microfilms and has cited the LAC film numbers. The imaged pages, bear a stamp indicating the "page" [microfilm frame number]. This is consistent with the way LAC has catalogued the material on its site. In short; the film number and frame number uniquely identify a page within a jurisdiction and year.

Records across two page spread of bound volumes

I have searched the forum and the EE index and did not find anything specific on citing records/entries that extend across a two page spread of a bound volume.  I have come across some volumes which may have one page number written in upper LH corner of the LH page, some with a printed number on LH page, some with the same number printed on both the LH and RH pages of the spread and some un-paginated. 

Is this a local record or a state record?

Hello! I have an image of a certified death certificate that was requested by the widow shortly after a man's death in 2004. I am having trouble figuring out if it a state or local record. Here is an image of the top and bottom of the image (I did not include the full certificate for privacy reasons):

2004 Death Certificate

Citing three households in one citation

Hello! I am working on a client report. In the 'research notes' section of the report, I have included the analysis of an 1830 census record in which three related families are all enumerated on the same page of the census. I would like to create one footnote for the combined analysis/correlation of these three households. Would I simply separate each with commas? Or would using semi-colons or some other form of punctuation be more clear? Here is my current citation which uses commas:

Attributed compiler of family information

I want to cite a single handwritten page of family information. It is one of three loose pages that were found in a Bible and sent to me. The owner had information about the compiler of each page – his grandmother, his mother, and let’s call her Mabel, a distant cousin. Mabel’s page is the most complete and the only one that contains the information I want to cite. It seems to me that Mabel may have had access to an older family Bible with specific birth, marriage, and death dates as well as spouse names for nine children (born between 1795 and 1816).