Citing a Cohabitation Marriage Record

By Anonymous on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 17:46

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Can anyone point me in the right direction for citing a cohabitation record? I have a photocopy of the Granville County NC cohabitation record from NC State Archives for my 4th great grandparents but I have no clue how to properly cite this record. Any help would be appreciated.

This is info they sent with the photocopy:

  • Granville County Cohabitation Records
  • C.044.61001
  • Albert Wyche, Julia Ann Adkins
  • 31 May 1866

On the back of the photocopy is stamped Electrostatic copy. 

Submitted byEEon Wed, 07/18/2012 - 19:26

jmarsmith: The model for you to follow would be one of those at EE 9.7. This section of EE treats county-level records that have been removed to the state archives. One example specifically treats North Carolina. In fact, it treats a post CW marriage bond for former slaves. All you have to do is to substitute

  • your county name (Granville for Alamance)
  • your collection name ("Cohabitation Records" for "Original Marriage Bonds") and
  • your personal names (Wyche-Adkins for Merrit-Murray)

The result would be this:

Granville County, North Carolina, Cohabitation Records, File: "Wyche, Albert to Julia Ann Adkins, 31 May 1866"; County Records Collection; North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh.

Incidentally, if you (and other EE users) have not already seen it, the NC State Archives has, online, a very helpful inventory of its county-level records as of 2002:

Guide to Research Materials in the North Carolina State Archives: County Records, rev. 2002, PDF (http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/FindingAids/co_guide.pdf).