Citation Issues

Dear EE,

I searched for this topic on the site, yet couldn't find it.

I am using a Kindle book as a source, but it has no page numbers, only locations. Would it be "safe" to use the location of my reference in my citation, perhaps specifying that it is a location, such as "location 253" (shortened to "loc. 253" in subsequent short notes) with all else for electronic book citation remaining equal? Clearly, I can't use a page number.

Thoughts and input appreciated.

eevande

So, reading over the QuickLesson 25: ARKs, PALs, Paths & Waypoints (Citing Online Providers of Digital Images), I got a little bit confused on when to layer a citation.   Two of the examples are:

Dear Editor,

I have a couple of questions about my citations and, in particular, my questions will pertain to the “Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968” collection on Ancestry. Apologies for the length of the post! :)

A little background first …

Greetings,

I am a EE newbie, having just received my copy yesterday! I jumped right in to try to correct citations in my FTM program, starting with my own vital records. Harder than I thought!

I have an heirloom birth certificate issued by the State of Ohio, which does cite the "State File Number" of my original birth certificate as well as my parents' names. (My original certficate was stolen along with all our other vital records being held in a home safe in 2003; this was my choice of replacement.)

I amy trying to cite an un numbered front matter page in a book, and I thought I would see if I am on the right track.

Here is the source i am trying to cite: https://archive.org/details/cherokeelandlott00smit

Allen County Public Library. Images. Internet Archive. Archive.org. https://archive.org/details/cherokeelandlott00smit : 2009.

I am hoping you all in this wonderful community can help with a quandary. How does one cite FamilySearch's Family Tree? Is there a specific name for it? It is not the IGI, Ancestral File, or Pedigree Resource File, all of which have citation examples in EE. I actually want to cite a source document attached to a person in the tree, but I need to know how to cite where I found it (since it wasn't through the expected channels).

Really grappling with this and I don't know why.
What exactly does "Lead Element" mean when it is used in EE?

I want to say it's the first "thing" mentioned or written when writing a citation, but not positive.

TIA

Dear Editor,

The Amsterdam City Archives provides different indexes on their website. The website itself offers no way to search all of them with one search form. But if you take the URL of one of the searches, and change one of the search parameters to 0 [zero], it searches all of the indexes at once. The archives confirmed that this trick does indeed give the correct results.

If I'm writing a report and want to cite that a search of all the indexes did not turn up any results, how would I cite that search?

Citation examples are given for invididual documents from a Civil War Pension file e.g. Widow's Declaration. Is there any way to shorten the citation when citing to a SECOND different document from the same pension file?

I see examples of subsequent citation formats for the SAME document, but what if you are citing to a second different document from the same pension file? Is there any way to shorten it w/o given the entire long citation to the entire pension file and online database?

Thanks,

SHR

I have a general question when citing to a document from a Civil War Widow's pension file retrieved from an online database such as Fold3.

Does your citation begin with the database information or the document information then followed by the database citation?

I have read EE sections on this and I have seen it both ways in a layered citation.

Thanks for any advice.

SHR