Citation Issues

When does a certificate, birth/marriage/death, go from becoming a state/city issued certificate to a privately held artifact. 

I have many of these certificates, some which I inherited, some I have ordered myself.   

In all cases I am questioning, I have the physical paper in my possession.  Does this automatically make it an artifact? 

Or if I’ve ordered them they are an artifact, and I inherited them they are a state/city issued certificate?

Thank You,

Debbie

I would appreciate feedback from this forum and EE on my crafting of the citation.  I have read EE and hope I have done this correctly.  My source is a naturalization record from Ancestry for an individual Hyman Tolinsky, file 134167.  Here is what I have created.

The Arizona State Genealogical Library was boxed up and moved to an archive building (about 20,000 cataloged items).  The plan is to digitize the Arizona related items and items out of copyright and then dispose of them.  The library has indicated that once the items are disposed of they will be deleted from the catalog.  In the meantime, the catalog information hasn't been changed to reflect the new location of the materials.  Should I use the catalog information for the citation or should I update my citation to show the new location?

Hi,

Say I have 10 or more land entries mentioned in the main text, but none are specifically discussed. Including these in the Source List is not a problem; but, I also want them included in my End Notes since the details of each would otherwise be lost or at least not included (and I do want them included).

Does this mean I would include the full citations for all 10 land entries in one (rather large) End Note? If so, what form would this take; begin each entry as a separate paragraph within the note?

If this is not recommended, then may I have your suggestions?

I have a photocopy of a page from a baptismal register of a church that has recently closed.  The photocopy was given to me by the church office staff when I visited the church several years ago.  When I learned that the church had closed, I tried to track down what had happened to the original record books.  They are not at the church's branch location or at its denominational office; I was told that they were given to a nearby library with a large genealogical collection for the local area.

Dear Editor,

In a positing entitled "How to use source information given by Ancestry?" you mentioned an approach for rendering italics in programs like Ancestry or FamilySearch that restrict us to using ASCII characters only. I've unsuccessfully searched previous posts to see if I could find the answer to the following question.

Hi, I have several Revolutionary War documents I need to cite from the Pennsylvania Archives. I based what I have on the Quick Check model on page 429; could you please review this and let me know your input?

Source List:

Pennsylvania. Westmoreland County. Records of the Office of the Comptroller General. Record Group 4; Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg.

End Note:

Sigh.  I've been going through my tree and rewriting citations and reevaluting sources for the last year and a half.  The more citations I write, the more questions I ask myself.  I'm chasing rabbits through their warrens. 

With regard to newspaper obituaries obtained from digital images of the newspapers online (like Google Newspaper Archive, NewspaperArchives.com or Newspapers.com), I have really begun to question my original grasp of source and information evalution.  So, here goes...

I just wanted to make sure I'm on the right track. I've attached a Certified Marriage License I received from my mother, and as I reviewed it I can see a few things right off.

I have an indenture (early form of a deed) from a County archive and I'm not sure how to cite it. I need both the Source List entry and the first Reference Note. I have the following information:

Delaware Public Archives, Sussex County, Record Group 4555.031.

Deed Book I, page 47.

Title of record is (say): "First Party to Second Party"

It's a digital image of a penned document;

Transaction took place 7 Feb 1754 and was recorded on the same date.