I did an interview with my Grandmother when I was a teenager. Yep, no real record left of the actual interview, but the facts remain. Here is how I'm planning on sourcing and describing the situation.
In 2004, I visited The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta and was fortunate enough to be permitted to photograph the page from, “Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians): Extract of Records,” compiled by Captain. F.C. Powell, the Adjutant for Officer 1/c Records, Lord Strathcona's Horse (RC). This is a one-of-a-kind document and can only be viewed in the museum archives. The photographed page contains key information relating to my grandfather, Thomas Baird Murison, and his pre-WW1 military service.
I am once again stumped by a Massachusetts Vital Record. I would like to cite the image of the birth record for Thomas Judd, who was born in Charlemont, Massachusetts, on 4 September 1812. I found the image of the town register on Ancestry "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988." Browse to Charlemont > Town Records > image 51 (you can also find it by searching the database for Thomas Judd, born in 1812).
Does the certificate date refer to the date the certificate was filed or the date that the certificate was issued?
For example I have a certified copy of death certificate given to me by a relative. The death took place in 1937 and it was filed in 1937, but it is stamped by the Department of Health May 24 1984. Which date should I use in the citation?
Hello,
I'm crafting a first reference note citation for a newspaper article accessed online and I feel comfortable with the example given in EE 14.22. My question comes because the the newspaper title from the masthead in the digital image (North Wales Observer and Express) is different from the newspaper title as shown in the website (The North Wales Express).
To shorten and simplify some of my existing citations, I'm trying to reformat some of them to show the "physical item" first. While I'm not quite sure about the first and subsequent reference note formats, I'm quite concerned about the format of the source list entry and its length.
In crafting a citation, I am trying to decide whether it is appropriate to use editorial brackets for the title, or go ahead and put what is the implied name of the register. And which implied name should I use?
When I go to the first page filmed for this volume, which FamilySearch states is "Marriage Records", I find on the cover of the book only the volume "E". When I am looking at the record I am citing, it it is pre-printed at the bottom of the record "Filed and Recorded in Book E of the County Records of Marriage Licenses...".
I have an issue with Newspapers.com (part of Ancestry?). They cite the newspaper as South Idaho Press (Burley, Idaho), but when you go to page 1 of the newspaper, the title is The Burley Bulletin. How do I cite this? I normally cite what the newspaper title page has on it.
I have been pretty successful at finding citation examples in the book but I have hit a snag. I have an online image at Ancestry that was originally in the AL Dept of Archives and History, Alabama Surname Files; Box or Film Number :M84.0085. I think my Source List Entry is good to go but once I hit the 1st Reference I got stuck. Here's what I have so far:
Source List Entry
Dear Editor;
In your response to "Citing newspapers sourced from Ancestry.com" you provided a possible citation (for which I've included the missing page number);
Ottawa (Ontario) Journal, 6 March 1958, p. 30, cols. 1–2, “Deaths: Murison, Thomas Baird”; imaged “Ontario, Canada, The Ottawa Journal (Birth, Marriage and Death Notices), 1885–1980,” Ancestry(https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/50019 : accessed 10 June 2021).
