Citation Issues

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.  

I'm looking at the examples of US pension records examples from EE4 12.35 (which is the same as EE3 11.40). The first layer relates to the record in question, which I understand. The second layer in the first three examples is "Case Files of Approved Pension Applications..., 1861-1934", which is the series. My confusion comes with the third layer - "Civil War and Later Pension Files". The fourth later is fine, "Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs" which is the Record Group and its description, and the final layer is the repository.

I am working through U.S. agricultural schedules available on Ancestry. I am using Ancestry Library Edition, though, so my links will reflect that.

I have a database: “U.S., Selected Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880," but I'm not sure whether I really need to use it in my citation, and if so, how? Lead with the database?

I think the subject is explanation enough.  But I do have more specific questions.  

I'm going to venture a guess that including the post office is optional.  But, if it is included (such as in the rare case where more than one post office might be within a particular district or township), should it be: 

Post Office: Lynnville Station, or

Lynnville Station Post Office, or

Lynnville Station post office. You get the idea.

On page 305 (section 6.51) of Evidence Explained, 3rd. edition revised, the First reference example for a Welsh census from FindMyPast is: 

First Reference Note  

1. 1901 census of Wales, Monmouthshire, Bedwelty, p. 5 (stamped),  Moses Frame; image, “Census, Land & Substitutes,” DC Thompson,  Findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com: accessed 1 April 2015);  citing [The National Archives] “Series RG13, piece 4943, folio 5, p. 1.”

I have a couple of questions regarding gravestone images and memorial pages.

I’m curious why we’re now citing cemetery information in a separate layer. Previously, it followed the date in the first layer. Since Find A Grave doesn’t specify the source of its information, I’m unclear on why we would use the word “citing.”

I have been looking at EE4 12.28 and Template 5, and I'm not sure if I'm including too much (e.g., serial number and thereafter) or not enough. Also, would I need to include the date of registration?