Citation Issues

A colleague has me rethinking my citations for NYC vital records found online. Our differences lie in layer 2 and how we each interpret the website.  Perhaps you can provide some insight on how to best cite it? Here are our examples…

Brooklyn Borough, New York, death certificate, no. 2788, for Phoebe Williams Hendrickson, 31 January 1918; New York City Municipal Archives, “Historical Vital Records” database with images, NYC Department of Records & Information Services (https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/5179597 : viewed 9 November 2024).

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I looked at EE4 9.40 and crafted the following citation, but I do notice the example given in EE4 does not include a description (i.e., P.F. Rayford to J.N. Wills). Should it?

Hill County, Texas, “Deed Record 27,” 82-83, P. F. Rayford to J. N. Wills; County Clerk, Hillsboro; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3SF-WW33-Z : accessed 6 November 2024), image group number 8502872 > image 72 of 868.

I have reviewed EE4 template 10 and developed these two related citations:

Saline County, Arkansas, untitled court records book, p. 21, road petition, July Term 1837; imaged, “Arkansas Probate Records, 1817-1979,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2061549 : accessed 31 October 2024) > Saline > County Court records 1836-1848 > image 14 of 172; citing “County courthouses, Arkansas.”

I recently have been verifying my sources in Family Tree Maker. I discovered that the database name has changed. When I did my research originally there were numerous database titles for "Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [years covered]. I have sources with dates ranging from 1906-1963 to 1906-1970 for various people in my tree. Now when I verify the source there is only one date for the database, i.e. "Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1970". Should I change my source entries to reflect this?

Hello. I'm trying to create a source citation for a "book/atlas". It contains information relative to Fulton County, Ohio. This information is in the form of plot maps, county historical information, images (not plot maps) and personal histories. I'm thinking I should cite this as a book, but, I could use a little guidance. Below is what I have. There isn't an author, compiler, etc. noted. Any help/ insight greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Title: Historical Atlas of the World Illustrated. Fulton County [Ohio] References

Using the information provided in EE4 section 12.27 and the information provided on Fold3 and a search on NARA's website to identify the title for RG 109, I have constructed the following citation for a compiled military service record I am using in my research.

Dear EE,

I'm creating for myself, and others, network graphs of DNA relationships. I want to include information as to when I downloaded and when I created the graph(s). Those dates are likely close but not always. There are two types: the first is the graph of all the matches, the second is a subgraph that focused on some aspect of the All graph (a particular cluster number or a surname). The graphs may use one or multiple testers as the focal point. The process creates both a PNG graph and an associated CSV file.

So here goes my thoughts:

Editor's comment:

Emily posted the following on a very long older thread from 2021 involving FamilySearch architecture that has changed.  Because of those changes and the confusion users now deal with, I have moved Emily's important questions into a new thread.

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I've crafted the following citation for a tax roll in Grayson County, Texas, for J.J. McHale, but I'm not sure whether to include the pagination from the original source (p. 142), and if so, where? I know not to include it in the same layer as the information about the online source.

"Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1837-1910," database and images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1827575 : accessed 20 Oct 2024), Grayson county > 1894 > images 284-285, J.J. McHale; citing Comptroller's Office, State Archives, Austin.