Citation Issues

Dear Editor,

I am also new to genealogical citation. I got your reference EE and have been studying it. It is a great reference! I also read the recent posting about "Passenger Lists on Ancestry.com citing NARA -- Arrival by Aircraft" and found it to be very informative.

However, I still have a question regarding the correct usage of semicolons when a NARA citation is used along with the citation for the derived online images from Ancestry.

Dear Editor:

I am a newbie and this is my first attempt at sending a question.  I saw the guidance on passenger lists; however, I stumbled a bit when the passenger list was for arriving flights into the U.S.  Instead of the passenger lists with which I am familiar there were “digital cards” within Ancestry.com.  I was attempting to create a First Reference Note on the data within Ancestry.com which cited its source as being the National Archives.

I'm trying to cite the 1881 census for England and Wales and am stuck on what jurisdictions to include. The census page shows city of Carlisle, township of Caldewgate (also municpal ward) and ecclesiascital parish of Trinity.

Shown on the target: Superindentant registrar: Carlisle, Registrars Sub-District: St. Mary, ED 17.

The path that Ancestry gives is County (Cumberland) Civil Parish (Caldewgate) and ED. However, Caldewgate is not the civil parish.

Dear Editor;

As I often do, I've come across an useful wartime military publication (imaged online) that I find very difficult to cite. It isn't easily classified as a published or unpublished document. Being a wartime military document, it was "published" for use within the service, but not available to the general public. So, the military didn't identify it in the standard commercial way for a published book.

From a previous post I understand that the QuickCheck model on page 248 of Evidence Explained 3rd. edition means that the citation is created by actually examining the original microfilm produced by NARA. If this is correct does that mean the person is actually at the National Archives building in Washington D.C. or one of the regional facilities examining the original microfilm? I tried to find the microfilm referred to in the First (Full) Reference Note on page 248 at the archives.gov site for the NARA. I was unsuccessful in finding the image.

Dear Editor;

I looked at the following section, which explains how to cite eBooks of published works, delivered electronically:

Page: 699 (image 705)
Section: 12.60, E-Books: Audio & Text Sub-section: Electronically Readable Text (Kindle)

I then looked at what I believe is the correct QuickSheet:

Page: 655 (image 661)
Section: ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: E-DELIVERY OF PRINT-PUBLISHED BOOK

I note that the First Reference Note of section 12.60 does not seem to include the format, "Kindle edition", while the noted QuickCheck Sheet does.

Hopefully the subject makes sense. I wasn't really sure how to word it best. Here's the situation; I found my great great grandfather in a city directory on Ancestry. So I went forward and backward from that year and pulled every image for the years I found him. The citation for the original I found, before I started looking for more, looked like this.

I just want to see if I got this citation right...This volume is for both County Longford and Westmeath. There are divider pages that specifies the Barony, County and Union. Not quite sure if the divider pages should be considered a "chapter" or if I should just add the locations, like I did, in the end of layer 1.

I'm still fairly new to this. One thing that I have been doing is including the information I am citing as part of the citation. I'm not really sure if that's needed. For example, I used a birth certificate for a baby as a citation that the father has the occupation of bread salesman in 1922. So after I put the information for the birth certificate, I followed it up with

, JB Harris: occupation: bread salesman; [the information about finding it on FamilySearch]

Could you please verify for me the difference between QuickCheck Model Digital Images Federal Census (U.S.) on page 237 and QuickCheck Model Microfilm: Population Schedules 1880-1940 on page 248 of the 3rd. edition of Evidence Explained. It seems that on page 237 Ancestry copied the image from microfilm held by NARA, hence the "citing NARA ... , roll 187." and the reference to Ancestry's website. The only difference I see between this citation and the one on page 248 is that the word citing is not used and there is no reference to a website.