Christie, You may want to take a moment to read the following article by Elizabeth Shown Mills on "Citing Your Sources." It can be found here: http://www.bcgcertification.org/skillbuilders/skbld959.html Best regards, Pam Sears Regards, [email protected] wrote: > > I had written in my query the following: "Mayflower 18:1:70 says Sarah > was baptized 1690 and daughter of John and >> Patience (Bonham) Holmes > and that is a given." Pam wrote back and said: "<This is from > "Mayflower" what? I looked in the Mayflower Descendant, Volume 18, on > page 70 and/or 170, but could find no such baptismal record. Could you > please be more specific.> > > > > To explain - I had written this message to another individual, then when > I started to question the dates, I told that individual I would copy > what I had written and send it to the Mayflower list. The person to > whom I was writing understood me when I wrote Mayflower 18, which > probably did confuse those on the list. I apologize. It is a reference > to the Silver books Volume 18 which covers Richard Warren. I suppose > that in my mind everyone on the list would have figured out I was > talking about the silver books and not Mayflower Descendant. > > > > I don't have access to the Mayflower Descendant and I think, if I had, I > would have referred to it by the initials "MD" as I believe most people > understand that to mean Mayflower Descendant. So, again, I apologize > for any confusion by my reference referred to as Mayflower 18. I hope > this clarifies what I wrote and I suppose I need to follow my own rules > for clarity too. > > > > > > Christie Trapp >