I am getting my degree in Family History. In one of my classes we are writing our family history and I have to give citations for things that I have personal knowledge of, such as my cousin's birthdays. I don't have birth certificates for them but I know their birthdays. How do I cite this in my history?
I have been wrestling with this issue and just can't find how to resolve it. In my particular city directory (Lakeland, Florida, 1925), it comprises of other smaller cities of which Winter Haven is one of those cities and the person of interest is on page 39 of Winter Haven city directory. I of course using Ancestry database. "U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995," database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 Oct 2016), entry for Robert H. Bolen household; citing "Lakeland, Florida, 1925 (Jacksonville, Florida: R. L. Polk & Co., 1925)," Winter Haven city - page number 39.
I have in my possession a digital image of what is clearly a microfilm image of a 'Statistical Return of Marriage' in Quebec Canada for a marriage that took place in 1927; it was provided by a distant cousin who can't remember its proveance.
These documents are not now available online (although they may have been previously) and 3200 miles is a long way to go to consult the microfilm; copies can only be ordered by people named in the document (for privacy reasons).
The Registry of Vital Records and Statistics of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania recently was so kind to send me a "true copy" of the Delayed Return of Birth of Theodore Gadek, born in 1909. This "Certificate of Vital Record," came with an attachment explaining that the state file number is 146 and the that record was documented by a baptismal certifice. Earlier the Town of Adams had sent me a photocopy of the Delayed Certificate of Birth that they have in their records.
I have a slightly unusual question about references to the same image in an online article. You'll have to bear with me while I try and untangle what I think I'm trying to achieve ...
I want to display three images of the same document: one full and two heavily cropped for effect and the for the lead image. The proveance of the image is quite complicated so I only want to put that in a reference note once, and then use something like hereinafter to cite it again for the other instances.
Hello,
I am currently working on my ICAPGen Accredidation paper and I have hit a sang. I am using Evidence Explained for my citation style on this four generation paper, but I cannot find how to correctly cite three specific documents:
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More website citation issues for me. Below is a citation I wrote several months ago. I am fairly certain this is not quite correct. Should the article about farming in 19th century Ontario Canada be cited first? If so how might that one page article be titled? Below is my attempt at the citation. Could you please advise me?
My client has photocopies of her mother's will and her father's will. The father's will is in a blue folder provided by lawyers and reads
"Last will and testament of xxxxxxx
dated Stepmber 7, 1979
as modified by
Superior Court Judgment
Dated October 21, 1983"
Then at the bottom of the outside of the folder, the name and address of the law firm. Is this document enough to use as an original source of information (for names of his children), or do I need to find the probate record?
My client has photocopies of her mother's will and her father's will. The father's will is in a blue folder provided by lawyers and reads
"Last will and testament of xxxxxxx
dated Stepmber 7, 1979
as modified by
Superior Court Judgment
Dated October 21, 1983"
Then at the bottom of the outside of the folder, the name and address of the law firm. Is this document enough to use as an original source of information (for names of his children), or do I need to find the probate record?
I have a newspaper report of a death in 1917. The person who died in the article did not die however his wife did. I am writing up a story about the article and I want to title it "The Reports Of My Death..." Not Just For the Famous. The partial quote "The reports of my death..." has been attributed to Mark Twain. In doing some digging to find the origin of the original quote I discovered that he is often misquoted.
http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2010/06/reports-of-my-death-are-greatly.html
