Just when I thought I had a handle on citing Ancestry's military records, I start doubting...
I find a record for New York Guard service and write the citations in two ways. The first emphasizing the image and the second the database. I know I don't have to write them both ways but am always trying to understand the difference.
How would I go about citing a personal memoir that is held at a state historical society and copies are among the family including myself?. I decided to make citing easier so I want to use the historical society version since I have used information from both my copy and the society's, my reasoning being if someone outside the family wanted to get a copy they know what archive to go to. I feel like the closest format would be using the example archived material as shown in 3.14 using the author as lead or should I just use a book citation format without having a publisher listed?.
I was trying to find a good example in evidence explained to follow and am not sure I made the best citation. This is for an original record in loose paper files in the Baltimore City Archives. Records are sorted into record groups, sections etc. Documents are in numbered document order which do not necessarily fall by date just more of a random assortment with each numbered and usually grouped in a year or something similar. Any thoughts or better models would be appreciated.
While reading the chapter 14.22 on how to cite articles found online, I was left wondering since I didn't understand if you had to or not, if its necessary to cite where a collection comes from that's found on sites like newspapers.com.
Should I remove the abbreviations of p. and pp. from my citations?
Hello braintrust!
I would love your thoughts on this conundrum:
I want to source a digital image of a page from an 18th century church register, which is presently stored in a vault in Philadelphia at the Presbyterian Historical Society. (The church however is in New York and remains active to present day.)
The page I wish to source is now imaged on (and probably by) Ancestry, in a collection they labeled Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970. This collection includes churches from all over the place, as one might imagine.
Me again. Having trouble formulating the source of the source for Ancestry's WW2 Draft Registration (Fourth Registration for New York). Most of the records I am looking at are in Brooklyn, NYC
Let's take for example: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1002/images/NY-2370398-4560?
Ancestry gives us as the source: The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147
I have two questions related to some privately held military records.
1. I have several records that I inherited related to my father's military service in the USMC. I realize that they are to be cited as a privately held artifact but I am unsure if I have all the pieces in the correct order. Would appreciate your feedback.
“Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States” for Private First Class (E-2) [Father's Name], United States Marine Corps, 27 July 1967; privately held by [My Name, Address].
I have funeral programs, (that I call obituaries) and would like to know how to cite them. I looked through the list on EE and could not determine which category they would be in.
One of them I wrote for my daughter's funeral, another one was written by me and my brother for our mother's funeral. The rest I recieved from attending a funeral.
Some were printed by the funeral home listed on the "obituary" or printed from home by a family member, and/or another outside source.
A couple of questions on this citation. First, while the book itself has the name "Kirkebok" embossed on the cover, the archive calls it a klokkerbøker [digital name], Kirkebøker [on label], and Klokerbok [on label]. They all are very close when you translate, it's church book or the watch book. I used the name embossed on the cover and don't reference the other names directly.
