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I recently took advantage of the cost savings by ordering PDF rather than certified copies of birth and death registrations from the UK General Register Office. How do I cite them?
This is my attempt to use the 3-layer system: What I saw--a digital image of a birth entry on the UK Passport website; Where it came from--the General Register Office; Where they got it--birth register from the Wirral Union registration district. Does this citation work?
England, General Register Office, registration of birth, entry for Joseph Wheeler Smith, born Birkenhead, 8 September 1847, digital image; imaged at “General Register Office,” database with images, HM Passport Office (https://www.gro.gov.uk : accessed 30 April 2024); citing Wirral Union registration district, register of births, vol. 19, p. 302, 1847 September quarter, entry 99; PDF electronic and physical copies of the entry privately held by xyzzy, street address, city, state, zip code.
England, General Register…
cms, is the document actually imaged at the site or does the site present a database entry, whose information you used to order the copy?
The electronic copy emailed…
The electronic copy emailed to me is an image copy of the record. Attached is what I got via email and copied into my files. The headings are not originall.