Citation Issues

Hello,

I'm wondering if there has been any discussion about changing the way genealogists refer to the 1850 and 1860 schedules. By referring to them as Population and Slave Schedules, and being mutually exclusive, we are implying that the enslaved were not members of the population. If we refer to them as Free Inhabitant and Slave Inhabitant Schedules, we are at least acknowledging the enslaved's humanity as inhabitants or part of the population.

Ann

Building a citation for records found through a search engine on one web site which provides a name search capability to a second website which hosts archives containing the actual images.

Hi all, I would love for some advice on how to cite naturalization records that I received from the USCIS genealogy division. These documents are not in any databases (that I have seen), but I don't really know how to cite them as part of my own "archive." Would appreciate any help!

The item I'm trying to cite is a digital reprint of a numbered copy of a well-known self-published book. The original author is deceased and the rights have passed to a regimental museum, which allowed a study group to publish the book on the Internet Archive. Therefor, the reprinted copy contains a few pages of lead-in showing provenance and copyright information. In all other respects it is a true copy of the original.

Regarding the some times seen copyright in the footer of a report or paper, can you please elaborate on when and how that should be used?

Example: Tom Jones' Mastering Genealogical Proof, Appendix A, p 103, "© Thomas W. Jones, Ph.D., CG, CGL,...."

Thank you.

Curious how to handle a citation for this one. A few years ago I order a certified Death Certificate from the NYC Municipal Archives. The certificate is dated 1901 and labeled at the top "State of New York, Certificate and Record of Death". However, this is a local-level certificate. The death took place at the Soldiers and Sailors home in New Brighton, New York which is located in the borough of Staten Island. That said the certificate does not show that it was filed locally and no where do I see a label for Staten Island - although there is an illegible stamp at the top.

Dear editor;

In my project of revising my pre-existing citations, I've come across yet another instance that needs special attention. It is a webpage with a files section, in which the webmaster has "posted" files for download with her name, a date and a time.  

I did an interview with my Grandmother when I was a teenager. Yep, no real record left of the actual interview, but the facts remain. Here is how I'm planning on sourcing and describing the situation. 

In 2004, I visited The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta and was fortunate enough to be permitted to photograph the page from, “Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians): Extract of Records,” compiled by Captain. F.C. Powell, the Adjutant for Officer 1/c Records, Lord Strathcona's Horse (RC). This is a one-of-a-kind document and can only be viewed in the museum archives. The photographed page contains key information relating to my grandfather, Thomas Baird Murison, and his pre-WW1 military service.

I am once again stumped by a Massachusetts Vital Record. I would like to cite the image of the birth record for Thomas Judd, who was born in Charlemont, Massachusetts, on 4 September 1812. I found the image of the town register on Ancestry "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988." Browse to Charlemont > Town Records > image 51 (you can also find it by searching the database for Thomas Judd, born in 1812).