Citation Issues

I've read EE 2.24 - 2.31, but it didn't seem to answer how to cite film numbers for online images of film at FamilySearch.

Then I saw the first reference note on page 439, EE 9.6, where the film number is part of the quotation in the citing part of the note.

Then I looked at the fourth reference note on page 469, EE 9.42, where no film number is given as part of the quotation in the citing part of the note.  Checking the FamilySearch website, I saw that a film number was given for the image, it being 2,138,819.

Are there examples of the use of  > in EE 3rd edition?  I have the book, not the PDF version.

There are many variations and nuances in EE and I'm often unclear whether the use of one word or another is a personal preference (part of citation being an art) or flows from a significant difference.  I'm unclear as to whether "consulted as" in the second reference note in EE 2.33 adds anything.  At first glance, it seems to me that deleting the two words leaves a perfectly good citation.

1.  I was creating a source list entry for a the image of a newspaper article found at Newspapers.com and I was going to include the information about the website, as suggested in EE 9.6, when I saw that no such information appears in the source list entry at EE 14.22, bottom of page 808.  So now I'm confused when website information for online images should appear in source list entries.

2. The first reference note uses "image copy."  I'm not sure what the difference is between "image" and "image copy."

With much hoopla, Ancestry added images of estate documents (wills, files and sometimes much more) for most US States, on September 1, 2015:

http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/09/02/u-s-probates-are-here/

Then on September 24 and 25 Ancestry began to remove most of what had been uploaded for New Jersey.  Much is now gone.

If you knew that the data you want to cite is now gone from your source-site, would you note this regrettable circumstance in your citation for a document?  Here is an example:

On the surface, this seems like a straightforward problem/question, but I seem to be going around in a circle . . .

I came across a quotation in a novel that I want to save for possible use in a future presentation. The novel is a Kindle book that I purchased and downloaded from Amazon.com.

EE 12.60 gives an example for Electronically Readable Text (Kindle) that is clear and straightforward. But I ran into trouble as I tried to apply it.

I think I have another doozy.  How would I go about writing a citation for this image?  

http://interactive.ancestry.com/8758/usm575_16-0001?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fsearch%2fdb.aspx%3fdbid%3d8758%26path%3d&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnBrowsing#?imageId=usm575_16-0453

The record is not indexed so you can't use the database "U.S. Atlantic Ports Passenger Lists, 1820-183 and 1893-1959."  Instead over on the right side of the page where it says Browse this Collection,

choose Roll Based,

I understand that if a data source actually gives information about the source of its own data (whoopee!), such as the proveance, reference details, etc., then we should include it in a new layer begining "citing".

I also understand that if some authored work cites the sources from which it derived one-or-more claims then we can cite the work but not that author's citations, not least because they are not the source of the claim.

Good morning,

I deal mainly with Jewish Genealogy and so I have some issues with specific data sources.

My current questions relates to pages of testimony (for example: http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=1497034&language=en).

Pages of Testimony are submitted by Holocaus survivors, remaining family and friends, in commemoration of Jews murdered during the Holocaust.

1) How should I cite the various pages of testimony (there may be more then one per individual and they may have conflicting information) in my report? 

The suggested reference note in EE 11.55 for an online database of the Social Security Death Index gives me pause.  It is:

Social Security Administration, "United States Social Security Death In-dex," database, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org : accessed 1 April 2015), entry for Theresa Sammarco, 1978, SS no. 116-05-4655.