Citation Issues

NCGenWebProject website citation

EE,
At the NCGenWebProject website are located pages for every county. Tyrrell County is www.ncgenweb.us/TYRRELL.HTM. On that page are links to indexes for Probate, marriage Bonds etc., including the repository name which holds those records. As usual websites just confuse me. So I could use a bit of guidance AGAIN! Here is my version:

"Tyrrell County, NC Genealog-Probate Records," NCGenWebProject (www.ncgenweb.us/TYRRELL.HTM : accessed 2 September 2016), index entry for Robert Sawyer estate, located at N.C. Archives, Tyrrell County Estates, C.R. 096.508.29.

Partial repost: "Citing an FHL published digitized PDF microfilmed manuscript with compiler as author"

I have emails of the replies to a lost item from the late July server crash. They do not what I posted but do include EE's replies. I am reposting them here now in case they are of later interest.

The beginning of the original post (from the Evidence Explained Facebook page):

eevande wrote:

Handwritten photocopy, unpublished "manuscript", untitled

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I have (and currently cannot find!) a photocopy of handwritten, folder-bound booklets that a distant cousin wrote in 1975 when she was in her 80s. Most of the writing was to document our common ancestors' descendants, although there is a little bit about where they came from, why, and church memberships. I have written before using information from this source and am transferring it to a new article.

Will book vs. Death book citations

From EE 10.30 example 3, I formed this long form will book citation. The will book contains transcripts of original wills. It is located in the Hancock County, Indiana, Clerk's office in Greenfield:

     29. Hancock County, Indiana, Will Book 1: 183-184, Coonrod S. Coon; Hancock County Clerk, Greenfield.

Date to use when vital event is recorded in following year

I have run into several cases in which a birth, marriage, or death occurred in late December and was not recorded until the following January. It makes sense to me to include both the event year and the year the event was recorded in a citation. What is the usual practice?

Also, is it acceptable to include the full date of the event in these cases, as I'm inclined to do?

Thanks.

Lesley 

Sources from the Danish National Archives

Hello,

The sources held by the Danish National Archives (on- and offline) are all categorized by creator of the source ("arkivskaber") and series ("arkivserie"). For instance, the 1835 census of the population of Schleswig is categorized as follows:

Creator: Rentekammeret Danske Afdeling, Tabelkommissionen. ["Rentekammeret" was a state-level administrative unit dealing with financial matters.]

Series: Folketælling [census] 1835, Slesvig

Google Books - do I need to cite Google Books' source? What about the exact link?

I am using the following digitized book from Google Books.

I have two questions:

1) Do I need to cite Google Books' source, in this case the Harvard College Library, Charles Elliott Perkins Memorial Collection? I suspect not. But Google Books does specify the date of digitization.

Indiana certificate databases at Ancestry - yet another "source of the source" question

I need to cite a death certificate found in the new Ancestry.com database for Indiana death certificates. Of course, Ancestry's source information isn't super helpful, but from what is in its source area for the database and my own analysis of the record and images themselves, I have determined the following:

1860 census page number

I have an 1860 census page with two penned numbers.  One is written on a line on the left hand side after the words Page No.

Page No. ________

The other is on the right hand side.

Is the one on the left the enumerator's number and the one on the right the Census Bureau's number?

I can't attach the image because it is larger than 1 MB.  Maybe this link will work.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBSD-9FGX?i=42&wc=QZ2C-Y5V%3A1589429312%2C1589424992%2C1589423918%3Fcc%3D1473181&cc=1473181

Citing Correspondence through 23andMe

I am trying to determine how to cite correspondence that I received from a person through 23andMe's private messaging system. The messages also come to my email address, and since our initial messages, I know the person's private email and name, but the two emails I will be citing were from when we were still writing through 23andMe.

I had such a nice message all written up a few days ago, but it was one that got lost in the server failure (I'm sure that was much more frustrating to you than to me - and I wondered why I was getting no answer).