Vital records

QuickLesson 26: Thinking Through Ancestry.com Citations

Researchers love Ancestry and similar websites. Attorneys, biographers, genealogists, medical scientists, professional historians, and students all turn to them as the world’s largest shopping malls for historical records. These providers offer censuses, deeds and land grants, legal suits, medieval manorial rolls, military records, probate proceedings, prison files, vital records, and thousands of other types of materials for studying the past and reconstructing human lives.

Citing Legal Registrations

8 December 2014 Across centuries of recorded history, many classes of people have had to legally register themselves—voters, military-aged men, free people of color in slave regimes, aliens during a time of war, and "just plain folk" on the occasions of their births, marriages, and deaths.

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Citing Vital Records: Four Questions

27 September 2014 When citing a vital record (an official registration of birth, marriage, or death), four questions should guide our decision as to how we cite what we are using ...

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Vital Records, Revisited

1 May 2014 When citing unpublished vital records, we have four key issues to consider: :

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Citing Vital Records

24 April 2014 What are the two unbreakable rules for citing vital records--and why do they matter?

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