Citation Issues

I have a photocopy of a page from a baptismal register of a church that has recently closed.  The photocopy was given to me by the church office staff when I visited the church several years ago.  When I learned that the church had closed, I tried to track down what had happened to the original record books.  They are not at the church's branch location or at its denominational office; I was told that they were given to a nearby library with a large genealogical collection for the local area.

Dear Editor,

In a positing entitled "How to use source information given by Ancestry?" you mentioned an approach for rendering italics in programs like Ancestry or FamilySearch that restrict us to using ASCII characters only. I've unsuccessfully searched previous posts to see if I could find the answer to the following question.

Hi, I have several Revolutionary War documents I need to cite from the Pennsylvania Archives. I based what I have on the Quick Check model on page 429; could you please review this and let me know your input?

Source List:

Pennsylvania. Westmoreland County. Records of the Office of the Comptroller General. Record Group 4; Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg.

End Note:

Sigh.  I've been going through my tree and rewriting citations and reevaluting sources for the last year and a half.  The more citations I write, the more questions I ask myself.  I'm chasing rabbits through their warrens. 

With regard to newspaper obituaries obtained from digital images of the newspapers online (like Google Newspaper Archive, NewspaperArchives.com or Newspapers.com), I have really begun to question my original grasp of source and information evalution.  So, here goes...

I just wanted to make sure I'm on the right track. I've attached a Certified Marriage License I received from my mother, and as I reviewed it I can see a few things right off.

I have an indenture (early form of a deed) from a County archive and I'm not sure how to cite it. I need both the Source List entry and the first Reference Note. I have the following information:

Delaware Public Archives, Sussex County, Record Group 4555.031.

Deed Book I, page 47.

Title of record is (say): "First Party to Second Party"

It's a digital image of a penned document;

Transaction took place 7 Feb 1754 and was recorded on the same date.

I have multiple digital images of original numbered file folders.  Each image contains the file folder and   loose papers that are in it.

These images were supplied by the staff of the repository, sent to my cousin who then sent them to me.  (He had requested them by file number.) 

Example:

I have a question on citing the microfilm rolls that FamilySearch have been digitized, and you can access from the catalog, but they have not yet added waypoints or created a database for the content. This is the case with the Utah Supplemental Census Schedules, FHL microfilm 4,136,592. 

I want to cite more than the microfilm nubmer, because I viewed it online at FamilySearch, and I want to add the image numbers and URL.

How is this for a draft citation?

Hi,

I have a project where I need to include digital images of the original records. I therefore have to find out how to include the file name in the citation.

Let's say I went to Statsarkivet in Oslo, Norway, and made a paper copy of the record cited in EE, 2nd edition, page 364, scanned that copy to make in into a digital image named "Otto Pedersen 1855 vaccination.jpg", which I then finally sent to my client along with other images and my report. Would the following citation then be correct?

Greetings,

I am trying to discover the best way to cite an ancestors marriage, found on their childrens birth record.  Using ScotlandsPeople, I found two Statutory Birth records (images), that contain the childrens parents, marriage date and place, mothers maiden name, father and his occupation.  I did search a Family History Library film trying to find this Irish marriage. Parts of the film was missing and illegible.