Citation Issues

Placement of reference number

If I am stating several items over multiple sentences relating to one source, do I place the note after the first sentence in the sequence or the last? 

Example 1, with note on the first sentence: In the 1900 census, John was living in Crawford County, Indiana.1  He was working as a farmer.  His wife Sally and their three children were living with them. 

How to cite within a document an abstract I created for that document

Hi. So I created abstracts of several census records for an NGS assignment. In the assignment I had to also include a picture of the evidence I used, which were digital images from Ancestry. When I made my source citation of the abstracts I had created, the grader said that they shouldn't be identified as abstracts and that they should be cited just as the census records I had cited.

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 from Ancestry

Dear Editor,

I have looked and seen a number of questions about City Directories, but didn't see my specific question. Also, I didn't see my specific question in Evidence Explained (2015). Not that I expect every situation / citation addressed.

The QuickSheet for Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images (p. 2) for City Directories didn't address the Online Images that I am seeing on Ancestry.

I want to take a stab at a citation / Reference Note based on my genealogy database program that has an Evidence Explained Template feature.

Galizien Village Family Books

Hello,
I am wondering how to cite a Galizien Village Family Book.  I obtained it from Galizien German Descendants website, http://www.galiziengermandescendants.org.  The books are a compilation of data from church records mostly.  At one time you could purchase a CD containing several of the books and now a book of a single village can be purchased.  The following is the title of one of the documents I have on one village:
Ortsfamilienbuch Alt Jazów/Galizien 1786-1870
nach Unterlagen der Genealogischen Forschungsstelle der Galiziendeutschen

Citing DNA Evidence

Having received "QuickSheet: Citing Genetic Sources for History Research," I am still a bit confused on deciding how to handle citations for comparing multiple atDNA matches.  For instance, using GEDmatch, I am comparing various atDNA cousin matches with two specific testers (i.e. "constants").  Do I create a seperate reference note for each comparison with the two constants? Or is there an simpler way to cite multiple comparisons?

Discursive vs. citation reference notes

Dear EE,

I've noticed that some publications use distinct numbering systems for citation (1,2,3...) vs. discursive (A,B,C,...) reference notes, with one category of notes grouped in endnotes and the other category becoming footnotes. Is this a practice that is welcomed or is it frowned upon? Would it be acceptible to use a "footnotes only" arrangement of reference notes with the distinct numbering systems intermixed?

Stan M.

citing online indexes

EE, I am researching the neighbors of several different subjects within one case study. I am searching through marriage indexes for the indexed marriage record of each neighbor. I wish to see if the wife of each neighbor has a certain surname or not. I am using the index citation model on page 438. However, I need to list several index records, not just one as in the model. What is the best way to accomplish this withpout being wordy? T. Mills

Intranet vs. Internet citations.

Hello,

Citing a record from the internet is relatively straight forward. Ok it can have its quirks! My challenge is citing a digital image of a record that is only available on an intranet. I did a word search on my trusty electronic version of EE and intranet produced no results. 

The Minnesota Historical Society has an online website. On the internet you can view a "Birth Certificates Index." This index covers the years 1900-1934. However, when you are physically at the Minnesota Historical Society this same index also contains a link to the actual document.