Citation Issues

Dear Editor;

As I often do, I've come across an useful wartime military publication (imaged online) that I find very difficult to cite. It isn't easily classified as a published or unpublished document. Being a wartime military document, it was "published" for use within the service, but not available to the general public. So, the military didn't identify it in the standard commercial way for a published book.

From a previous post I understand that the QuickCheck model on page 248 of Evidence Explained 3rd. edition means that the citation is created by actually examining the original microfilm produced by NARA. If this is correct does that mean the person is actually at the National Archives building in Washington D.C. or one of the regional facilities examining the original microfilm? I tried to find the microfilm referred to in the First (Full) Reference Note on page 248 at the archives.gov site for the NARA. I was unsuccessful in finding the image.

Dear Editor;

I looked at the following section, which explains how to cite eBooks of published works, delivered electronically:

Page: 699 (image 705)
Section: 12.60, E-Books: Audio & Text Sub-section: Electronically Readable Text (Kindle)

I then looked at what I believe is the correct QuickSheet:

Page: 655 (image 661)
Section: ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS: E-DELIVERY OF PRINT-PUBLISHED BOOK

I note that the First Reference Note of section 12.60 does not seem to include the format, "Kindle edition", while the noted QuickCheck Sheet does.

Hopefully the subject makes sense. I wasn't really sure how to word it best. Here's the situation; I found my great great grandfather in a city directory on Ancestry. So I went forward and backward from that year and pulled every image for the years I found him. The citation for the original I found, before I started looking for more, looked like this.

I just want to see if I got this citation right...This volume is for both County Longford and Westmeath. There are divider pages that specifies the Barony, County and Union. Not quite sure if the divider pages should be considered a "chapter" or if I should just add the locations, like I did, in the end of layer 1.

I'm still fairly new to this. One thing that I have been doing is including the information I am citing as part of the citation. I'm not really sure if that's needed. For example, I used a birth certificate for a baby as a citation that the father has the occupation of bread salesman in 1922. So after I put the information for the birth certificate, I followed it up with

, JB Harris: occupation: bread salesman; [the information about finding it on FamilySearch]

Could you please verify for me the difference between QuickCheck Model Digital Images Federal Census (U.S.) on page 237 and QuickCheck Model Microfilm: Population Schedules 1880-1940 on page 248 of the 3rd. edition of Evidence Explained. It seems that on page 237 Ancestry copied the image from microfilm held by NARA, hence the "citing NARA ... , roll 187." and the reference to Ancestry's website. The only difference I see between this citation and the one on page 248 is that the word citing is not used and there is no reference to a website.

Hello, 

I am struggling with the citation for a World War I Troop Transport Passenger List.  I am not certain whether to use 11.16 for Passenger Lists: Online Derivatives or something similar to a military muster roll 11.38.

My sample is below: 

I'm trying to cite electoral rolls for Australia, which are on Ancestry. Some of them have a cover page so intend to cite the image first. I began to wonder if these were published or not. What I found from the National Library of Australia is that it appears that they were printed and available for public inspection to challenge eligibilty of other voters, but not with the intent to sell. (not sure if that meets the criteria for publication or not)

Hello everyone, first time poster. I have a Word Document that my mom sent me. It just has random facts about her aunt on it. Some of it is just information "she knows" or was told by my grandma, and some of it is information she has collected over the years. Nothing sourced in any way. She doesn't know where the information specifically comes from.

She is going to send me similar documents for other family members, so I want to create a template I can use and just swap out the correct info.