Citing “Drouin Collection records © 2022”

By History-Hunter on Thu, 06/23/2022 - 16:24

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Some of the information I am accessing on Généalogie Québec is buried several levels down in a file structure within a portion of their site accessible via a "landing page" and path. It's not accessible by using something like their "LaFrance" database. The complexity of accessing the image makes me wonder how best to cite it, in order to ensure someone else can find it. As I have quite a number of similar instances, may I ask for some feedback on the following proposed citation?

Here is the raw access info:

Landing page: https://www.genealogiequebec.com/membership/en/fonds-drouin/REGISTRES

Subsequent path: > Québec > Registres non-catholiques 1760-1979 > Township of Clarendon (Church of England) > 1880 [decade] > 1886 [year of decade]

Image: M122_37_0946.jpg

Should I assume that once on the landing page, a reader can use the following citation to locate the subject image, or do I need to be more explicit?

First Reference Note: Church of England (Clarendon, Quebec, Canada), non-catholic parish register, 1886, folio 79 verso (p. 157 [stamped]), baptism no. 16, Wilson (Eliza Sophia), born 24 January 1886, baptized 20 July 1886; image M122_37_0946 [JPG], in "Drouin Collection records © 2022", Drouin Institute, Généalogie Québec (https://www.genealogiequebec.com/membership/en/fonds-drouin/REGISTRES : downloaded 23 June 2022).

Subsequent Note: "Drouin Collection records © 2022", Church of England (Clarendon, P.Q., CA), parish register, 1886, fo. 79 v, baptism no. 16, Wilson (Eliza Sophia), born 24 January 1886, baptized 20 July 1886.

Source List: "Drouin Collection records © 2022". Browsable images. Drouin Institute. Généalogie Québec. https://www.genealogiequebec.com : 2022.





 

Yes. It is the official Drouin Collection website and everything is behind a paywall.

That is part of the problem, as I don't want anyone going through the frustration that I did to find the location of the records. You can't see anything of the structure until you subscribe, which was a big issue for me in preparing to research on this site.

If I may...

I've updated my proposed citation to the following, which I believe is a bit closer to the EE QuickCheck Model, "IMAGE COPIES: DIGITIZED ONLINE". Note that I put the "landing page" in the First Reference Note and just the main website address in the Source List Entry. Having the "landing page" should help any subsequent researcher. Also note that I didn't append ".jpg" to the image, but instead used "[JPG]", because the extra period might be confusing.

First Reference Note: Church of England (Clarendon, Quebec, Canada), "Registres non-catholiques, 1760–1979", folio 79 verso (p. 157 [stamped]), baptism no. 16, Wilson (Eliza Sophia), born 24 January 1886, baptized 20 July 1886; "Drouin Collection records © 2022", browsable images, Drouin Institute, Généalogie Québec (https://www.genealogiequebec.com/membership/en/fonds-drouin/REGISTRES : downloaded 23 June 2022), image M122_37_0946 [JPG].

Subsequent Note: Church of England (Clarendon, Quebec, Canada), "Registres non-catholiques, 1760–1979", fo. 79v, baptism no. 16, Wilson (Eliza Sophia), born 24 January 1886, baptized 20 July 1886.

Source List Entry: Church of England (Clarendon, Quebec, Canada). "Drouin Collection records © 2022". Browsable images. Drouin Institute. Généalogie Québec. https://www.genealogiequebec.com : 2022.

Submitted byEEon Fri, 06/24/2022 - 17:15
History-Hunter, realistically, EE cannot tell you "Yes, your citation is pluperfect!" or "Well, how about doing this or that?" when EE cannot access the record set you're using. (While I've used the site many times in the past, I don't have a current subscription and am not currently doing French-Canadian projects for which I need one.) That said, you appear to be including all essentials and I know from prior discussions that you have a sound understanding of the fundamentals. So: Trust your instincts.

Submitted byHistory-Hunteron Fri, 06/24/2022 - 18:17

Thank you. I understand that no-one can say that a citation is "perfect" ... and, they seldom are. However; as it seems to have all the essentials, I will take a leap and consider it to be "good enough".

I was mostly concerned about having included enough to allow someone a decent chance of locating the record, while not including such excruciating detail as to make the citation unwieldy and possibly confusing. Including the "landing page" for the structure, which contains all the parish records, should allow the reader to use the balance of the citation info to locate the record. It was the piece of the puzzle that took me the most time to locate.