Ship Passenger Lists

By Linda Rogers on Wed, 03/09/2022 - 16:35

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Hello,

I have a ship passenger list that I have viewed on Ancestry.com.  This is the citation that I have written:

Source List Entry (EE)

“California, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, Roll 5: 1882-1959.” Database with images. Ancestry. http://www.ancestry.com : 2008.

First Reference (EE)

“California, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, Roll 05: 1882-1959,” database with images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1657928:7949), entry for William J. Rogers, age 31, arrived San Francisco, California, March 1908, on the Nippon Maru from Hong Kong.

Subsequent References (EE)

“California, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, Roll 5: 1882-1959,” database with images, Ancestry, entry for William J. Rogers, 31, San Francisco, California, 1908.

I based this citation from p. 575 section 11.16 using the Atlantic Ports, Gulf Coasts, and Great Lakes Passenger Lists... as a guide.  

Viewing the image on Ancestry. The top line says: California, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959 for William J. Rogers.  Underneath that it says: M1412 - San Francisco, 1903-1918 > 05.

I did specify roll 5 in my citation, but I feel that I should also have the additional information listed as well?  Also, William J. Rogers was traveling with his wife and 2 sons.  Should I state that anywhere in the citation?

I have attached a copy of the image.

Thank you for your help,

Linda Rogers

 

Submitted byEEon Wed, 03/09/2022 - 18:45

Linda, just a couple of issues: 

1.

When I copied your collection title (the words between your quotation marks) and pasted them into Ancestry's query form for locating collections, they had no such collection.  The title to the collection is "California, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959."  No microfilm roll number is part of that title.

It is critically important that titles be cited exactly. By the same token, any time we put quotation marks around words that we copy, we have a researcher's obligation to quote exactly. We cannot add words within a quote or title, without placing them in square editorial brackets; and we cannot drop words from a quote or a title without replacing them with an ellipsis.

2.

You also questioned the inclusion of the path and waypoints that Ancestry cites above the image.  It is not necessary if you are citing an exact URL that takes us to the specific image.

If our URL takes us only to the collection level and then we have to follow a path to the exact image, that is when we add the path > waypoint > waypoint data after the parentheses that enclose the URL.