Citation Issues

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.

I have multiple digital images of original numbered file folders.  Each image contains the file folder and   loose papers that are in it.

These images were supplied by the staff of the repository, sent to my cousin who then sent them to me.  (He had requested them by file number.) 

Example:

I have a question on citing the microfilm rolls that FamilySearch have been digitized, and you can access from the catalog, but they have not yet added waypoints or created a database for the content. This is the case with the Utah Supplemental Census Schedules, FHL microfilm 4,136,592. 

I want to cite more than the microfilm nubmer, because I viewed it online at FamilySearch, and I want to add the image numbers and URL.

How is this for a draft citation?

Hi,

I have a project where I need to include digital images of the original records. I therefore have to find out how to include the file name in the citation.

Let's say I went to Statsarkivet in Oslo, Norway, and made a paper copy of the record cited in EE, 2nd edition, page 364, scanned that copy to make in into a digital image named "Otto Pedersen 1855 vaccination.jpg", which I then finally sent to my client along with other images and my report. Would the following citation then be correct?

Greetings,

I am trying to discover the best way to cite an ancestors marriage, found on their childrens birth record.  Using ScotlandsPeople, I found two Statutory Birth records (images), that contain the childrens parents, marriage date and place, mothers maiden name, father and his occupation.  I did search a Family History Library film trying to find this Irish marriage. Parts of the film was missing and illegible.

In the QuickCheck Model for Private Holdings: Interview, Tape & Transcript citations there is a place to record both the name of the person interviewed and the date the interview happened.

For citing National Government Records, Evidence Explained includes three categories: original materials (such as manuscripts and photographs), databases, and image copies. Into which of these categories would fall original materials that were sent to me as image copies by an agent? I have not viewed the original paper documents, yet the images I have seen are neither from an online database nor on microfilm.

Dear Editor,

When a county clerk creates a register record and forwards it to the state, is the state leading element (the author) in the citation or is the county?

Looking at an image from FamilySearch "Michigan Births, 1867-1902," the register states at the top of the page "To the Honorable Secretary of State of Michigan: Return of Births in the County of Luce."

Image no. 1 in this set is the FHL microfilm information which identifies it as originating with the "Dept. of Vital Records, Lansing, Michigan."

Should my citation be something like this: