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From: Mollie Lynch <>
Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Citing Ancestry.com as source
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:13:32 -0400
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The form of a citation varies from style
manual to style manual. The book "Electronic
Style: a guide to citing electronic information"
suggests adding "available" at the end of the
citation and indicating the source or location
of the information. For example:

U.S. Census, 1880: Michigan, Oakland Co.,
White Lake Twp. ED 275, page 455A.
Available: Ancestry.com [or http://, e-mail address
with name & date received, etc.]

My personal preference is to include all of the
known info because I never know when I'm
going to need it and I would rather have have
to much than not enough. This is a sample of
one of mine for which I just happened to have
the film numbers even though I obtained the
image through Ancestry.com.

U.S. Census, 1880: Michigan, Oakland Co.,
White Lake Twp. ED 275, page 455A, lines 11-17.
Available: Ancestry.com image #17, FHL Film
1254599, National Archives Film T9-0599.

I include the ancestry image number because I once
went back to take another look at a page and had
to search through a few pages before I found it.
The line numbers help when the writing is difficult
to read.

Whatever style you use the key is that it makes
sense to you and that you use it consistently.


"Patricia J. Weisshaus" wrote:

> Jim has an excellent point here that I had not thought of before, and that
> is that if one doesn't have a subscription to ancestry.com, it is not
> possible for everyone to get to it.
>
> I do have one thing in my sources, however. I use Elizabeth Shown Mills's
> examples of citations for censuses and that is:
>
> Illinois. Cook County. 1860 US census, population schedule
>
> I usually include the township in the comments field in the individual
> citations.
>
> This certainly allows the read the find the census in spite of ancestry.com
> unavailability. I have not been putting in the publication number and I
> will start doing that. They are easily obtainable from
> www.censusmicrofilm.com.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Pat
>
> At 01:32 PM 9/26/2002 +0100, Jim Sladek wrote:
> >I don't know if it's right or wrong, but on the Citation Detail, I list,
> >for example, "Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, ED 1744, Sh 5B" and I use
> >the actual census collection date. I then extract the data from the
> >census sheet for the individual and type it into the "Actual Data" section.
> >
> >It's a lot of work, but it's a way that works for me since the .jpg
> >image would be unreadable and useless if attached as the only source item.
> >
> >I still hold a hard copy of the census page as well as a .jpg or .sid
> >depending on what year I am dealing with.
> >
> >I think citing of URLs has been discussed before and due to the
> >volutility of URLs, it probably not a good idea for long term use. In
> >addition, if one does not have an ancestry subscription, they would not
> >be able to use the source reference even if it were still valid.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Jim Sladek
> >
> >
> >Patricia J. Weisshaus wrote:
> >> Dear Listers,
> >>
> >> I have been looking up census records in Ancestry.com. I am in a quandary
> >> as to how to enter this. I think my choice is to use NARA with their
> >> publication and roll number and in the comment field, note that the record
> >> came from Ancestry.com. How does that sound?
> >>
> >
> >
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