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Reclaim the records have published lots of collections on the Internet Archive (as well as other places). Those on the Internet Archive can be accessed via https://archive.org/search?query=Reclaim+the+Records.
Most of the collections on the site do not indicate who originally created the records, which I would expect would be needed as the "Who" at the start of the citation. Or should the "who" be "Reclaim the Records"? Or is it unnecessary to include Reclaim the Records in the citation, just that it was found on the Internet Archive?
Hello, Obsessed_Genie…
Hello, Obsessed_Genie. Internet Archive examples appear in EE4 at 13.78 and 1410. Starting with one of those, would you try citing a specific item of interest to you and then we'll work from there?
From the ten-mile birds-eye view, why would Internet Archive be different from, say, FamilySearch or Ancestry.com? It's a website with many different things. Some things are in collections and some are not. Some are contributions by specific people and some are not. If something is in a collection, then that collection is named. If a creator or contributor is identified, then a creator's identity is always an essential part of a citation.
Generalities aside, the devil is always in the details—thus the reason for the request in paragraph one.
The examples in your book in…
The examples in your book in sections 13.78 and 14.10 are for books on the Internet Archive, which don’t quite fit for the records uploaded by Reclaim the Records.
Reclaim the Records has indexes to records, and also images of some actual records. The actual records include some vital records certificates, as well as lists of registered voters, which appear to have been in a book format without the cover & it’s publication details included (e.g. https://archive.org/details/RegisteredVotersNYC1924QueensAD02) . At the moment I am focusing on the vital records and the indexes of those events, so I have crafted an example citation for each of them after looking at the examples in 13.78 and 14.10.
Example of a certificate
Idaho Department of Public Health, Division of Vital Statistics, marriage certificate no. 6373 (1948), Lawrence L. Herring and Hazel Lea Hammitt; imaged, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/reclaim-the-records-idaho-marriages-1948 : accessed date 8 January 2026) > Idaho marriages 1948 > image 534 of 7878; citing Reclaim the Records.
Example of an index
New Jersey State Archives, death index, Margaret R. Fisk, 1902, no. 31416; “New Jersey Death Index – 1902,” imaged, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/NJ_Death_Index_1902 : accessed date 8 January 2026), page 110, image 66 of 205; citing Reclaim the Records.
I was unsure whether to include the waypoints since the URL takes us directly to that collection, so have crafted one example with waypoints and one with the collection name.