I find myself getting lost in the details trying to construct layered citations.
I'm trying to develop a layerd citation for a death certificate image from Ancestry.com that originally came from an original in the Pennsylvania State Archives. Here's what I've come up with:
What I have in my hands is a photo copy of a page from a compiled book of obituaries from a county in Ohio. The book is photo reproductions of the original newspaper obituaries clipped from a specific newspaper, not transcripions.
My question, of course, is the proper form of citation. One possibility is:
Dear Editor,
Yes, I am back, but with a, I hope, generic question. As you may know, I am fighting, no working with my genealogy database management software program.
I'm having some difficulty understanding the difference between Online Database (Ancestry) and Online Images (Ancestry), which have different "First Reference Notes" (EE 6.19). I understand the citations, but when should I use Database versus Images?
Evidence Explained:
Dear Editor,
I have a question about a Census Record has a Household at the bottom of one page, and the Household continues at the top of the next.
I cite my Census Records by Household, but that might be a different topic, in doing so, I was able to identify the name of a 2nd wife, because her children from a previous marriage were listed in the household being related to the Father, her 2nd husband, as Step (daughter, son).
My question is, what if that Household is on two pages? Do I do this:
I have a copy of a cemetery record that is an application for service (EE 5.8) but includes interment location (EE 5.7) and names the purchaser (EE 5.9).
Unlike the example in EE 5.8, this application was made by the next of kin, not the mortuary firm.
I would like to use this application to capture the interment location so I tacked it on at the end of an EE 5.8 citation:
River View Cemetery Association (Portland, Oregon), application for interment of Charles W. Roggy, submitted by Helene Roggy, 19 Oct 1981. Interment listed as niche 704, corridor 16.
Hi,
I'm not at all an historian, but I'm a writer who is extremely interested in history.
I've started a history book that begins with how the earth originally formed (billions of years ago). How do I write about this topic legally, since there are no original documents and I'm not an expert? So far I've been reading multiple websites, and writing in my own words.
Also, what determines when I have to cite websites I've read?
Thanks!
Kara
Dear editor,
In the Netherlands, repositories are increasingly putting their finding aids online including scans of the original records. We use these scans just like we would originals: we browse the finding aid, following the hierarchy down to the document we like to consult, and then instead of asking the archivist to get the document for us, we click through to the scans.
I'm trying to come up with a citation for a book at the HathiTrust Digital Library website:
http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011985446.
It is a combination of abstracts of trial court documents in a particular case. The case was appealed to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. I'm not sure whether this book was filed with the Court as part of the appeal or whether it was printed later by the plaintiffs/appellants, who were also the publishers.
I wish to cite the 1895 Wisconsin state census found at Ancestry.com.
The image of the page (that has no number) that I wish to cite has a heading that is not filled in:
"Enumeration of the Inhabitants in the ________________ of __________________ in the County of _________________, State of Wisconsin, on the 20th day of June, A. D. 1895.
Based on the information that Ancestry.com provides, my citation is:
