Citation Issues

Dear Editor,

My friend and fellow genealogist and I are pondering the lack of parentheses around part of the location/jurisdiction in most cases in EE, as opposed to their use in 2.31 and 7.12, for example. Here are reference notes from 2.31 and 7.12:

2.31

1. Christian County (Kentucky), 1799 Tax Book, List 2; Kentucky State Historical Society, Frankfurt; FHL microfilm 7,926.

and

7.12

2. St. Mary’s Church (New Orleans, Louisiana), Marriage Book 3, p. 91, Guérin-Mailloux; Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Hello,

I have digitally created a "collage" of a number of documents and photographs. I am trying to write a citation for the image. This is what I have come up with. Any nits would be appreciated. My plan is to include all the information below in the discription field on an Ancestry tree.

Thank you,

Ann C Gilchrest

Dear EE,

I'm working on a citation for information I am using from the Kindle copy of the 50th Anniversary Edition book Genealogy Standards by the BCG. The copyright and publisher information at location 3 reads as follows:

Copyright © 2014
Board for Certification of Genealogists
P. O. Box 14291
Washington, D.C. 20044

Office@BCGcertification.org

Published by Ancestry.com,
an imprint of Turner Publishing Company

424 Church Street • Suite 2240 • Nashville, Tennessee 37219

Dear EE,

I searched for this topic on the site, yet couldn't find it.

I am using a Kindle book as a source, but it has no page numbers, only locations. Would it be "safe" to use the location of my reference in my citation, perhaps specifying that it is a location, such as "location 253" (shortened to "loc. 253" in subsequent short notes) with all else for electronic book citation remaining equal? Clearly, I can't use a page number.

Thoughts and input appreciated.

eevande

So, reading over the QuickLesson 25: ARKs, PALs, Paths & Waypoints (Citing Online Providers of Digital Images), I got a little bit confused on when to layer a citation.   Two of the examples are:

Dear Editor,

I have a couple of questions about my citations and, in particular, my questions will pertain to the “Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968” collection on Ancestry. Apologies for the length of the post! :)

A little background first …

Greetings,

I am a EE newbie, having just received my copy yesterday! I jumped right in to try to correct citations in my FTM program, starting with my own vital records. Harder than I thought!

I have an heirloom birth certificate issued by the State of Ohio, which does cite the "State File Number" of my original birth certificate as well as my parents' names. (My original certficate was stolen along with all our other vital records being held in a home safe in 2003; this was my choice of replacement.)

I amy trying to cite an un numbered front matter page in a book, and I thought I would see if I am on the right track.

Here is the source i am trying to cite: https://archive.org/details/cherokeelandlott00smit

Allen County Public Library. Images. Internet Archive. Archive.org. https://archive.org/details/cherokeelandlott00smit : 2009.

I am hoping you all in this wonderful community can help with a quandary. How does one cite FamilySearch's Family Tree? Is there a specific name for it? It is not the IGI, Ancestral File, or Pedigree Resource File, all of which have citation examples in EE. I actually want to cite a source document attached to a person in the tree, but I need to know how to cite where I found it (since it wasn't through the expected channels).

Really grappling with this and I don't know why.
What exactly does "Lead Element" mean when it is used in EE?

I want to say it's the first "thing" mentioned or written when writing a citation, but not positive.

TIA