Citing English wills and probate documents
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I have in my possession:
I have in my possession:
EE,
At the NCGenWebProject website are located pages for every county. Tyrrell County is www.ncgenweb.us/TYRRELL.HTM. On that page are links to indexes for Probate, marriage Bonds etc., including the repository name which holds those records. As usual websites just confuse me. So I could use a bit of guidance AGAIN! Here is my version:
"Tyrrell County, NC Genealog-Probate Records," NCGenWebProject (www.ncgenweb.us/TYRRELL.HTM : accessed 2 September 2016), index entry for Robert Sawyer estate, located at N.C. Archives, Tyrrell County Estates, C.R. 096.508.29.
I have emails of the replies to a lost item from the late July server crash. They do not what I posted but do include EE's replies. I am reposting them here now in case they are of later interest.
The beginning of the original post (from the Evidence Explained Facebook page):
eevande wrote:
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I have (and currently cannot find!) a photocopy of handwritten, folder-bound booklets that a distant cousin wrote in 1975 when she was in her 80s. Most of the writing was to document our common ancestors' descendants, although there is a little bit about where they came from, why, and church memberships. I have written before using information from this source and am transferring it to a new article.
From EE 10.30 example 3, I formed this long form will book citation. The will book contains transcripts of original wills. It is located in the Hancock County, Indiana, Clerk's office in Greenfield:
29. Hancock County, Indiana, Will Book 1: 183-184, Coonrod S. Coon; Hancock County Clerk, Greenfield.
I have run into several cases in which a birth, marriage, or death occurred in late December and was not recorded until the following January. It makes sense to me to include both the event year and the year the event was recorded in a citation. What is the usual practice?
Also, is it acceptable to include the full date of the event in these cases, as I'm inclined to do?
Thanks.
Lesley
Hello,
The sources held by the Danish National Archives (on- and offline) are all categorized by creator of the source ("arkivskaber") and series ("arkivserie"). For instance, the 1835 census of the population of Schleswig is categorized as follows:
Creator: Rentekammeret Danske Afdeling, Tabelkommissionen. ["Rentekammeret" was a state-level administrative unit dealing with financial matters.]
Series: Folketælling [census] 1835, Slesvig
I am using the following digitized book from Google Books.
I have two questions:
1) Do I need to cite Google Books' source, in this case the Harvard College Library, Charles Elliott Perkins Memorial Collection? I suspect not. But Google Books does specify the date of digitization.
I need to cite a death certificate found in the new Ancestry.com database for Indiana death certificates. Of course, Ancestry's source information isn't super helpful, but from what is in its source area for the database and my own analysis of the record and images themselves, I have determined the following:
I have an 1860 census page with two penned numbers. One is written on a line on the left hand side after the words Page No.
Page No. ________
The other is on the right hand side.
Is the one on the left the enumerator's number and the one on the right the Census Bureau's number?
I can't attach the image because it is larger than 1 MB. Maybe this link will work.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBSD-9FGX?i=42&wc=QZ2C-Y5V%3A1589429312%2C1589424992%2C1589423918%3Fcc%3D1473181&cc=1473181