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From: Elizabeth VandenBerg <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: how to cite microfilmed church documents
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 21:15:40 -0500


There is, I'm sure, a specific way to do it, but generally
speaking, I would cite it in a way that guarantees that a
person retracing your steps could go to the EXACT place on
the EXACT microfilm that you used.

leslie wrote:
>
> I know that when you cite a source found on microfilm that you
> cite it fully and then add the microfilm citation.
>
> My problem is that I am not sure how to cite some church
> records. There is no title on the book I'm using, except a
> notation inside that it is baptisms and marriages spanning
> particular years. I do know what city the records are
> for.
>
> The FHL cites the whole work as something like:
> "Church Records 1650 - 1817." But that encompasses
> several volumes over 2 microfilms. I am currently
> using volume 907. These two films do not contain
> over 900 volumes of these records.
>
> I really want to do this correctly because if I ever publish
> my work these records will be included. I know that if
> someone wants to check my work they are more likely
> going to go to the FHL for the microfilm than to the
> archive in the Netherlands where these records were
> filmed.
>
> Should I use the FHL title?
> Church Records 1650-1817, vol. 907, pg. 38
>
> Or should I cobble together a new title for each volume
> I end up using depending on what is written on the book?
>
> Births 1773-1811; Baptisms 1775-1820, vol. 907, pg. 38
>
> Or make a title using both?
>
> Church Records 1650-1817: Births 1773-1811;
> Baptisms 1775-1820, vol. 907, pg. 38
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leslie
>
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