Hi: I have received this query: At 17:25 -0400 3/5/06, Ryan Taylor wrote: >Hi Brian: I hope you don't mind me approaching you about this but I >needed an academic mind to help! >I have seen a couple of examples from the upcomign edition of Elizabeth >Mills' Evidence, the basic book for genealogical citations in North >America. She has decided to expand her purview to include Britain, which >may be unwise, as her knowledge seems limited. (as e.g. she refers to >'Surry County' as a place in England...) >Is there a place I can look to find an already-established form for >citing 1837online.com? Her example cites the civil registration entries >using the form month/district/vol/page in the form >June 1849 Barnstaple 5a : 928 >I would tend to put the district first. What do you think? >many thanks for your help. Ryan Taylor >... >Ryan Taylor >Genealogy Cataloger, Allen County Public LIbrary >Fort Wayne IN >rtaylor@acpl.lib.in.us I've not corresponded with Ryan before, but know how well-respected in US Genealogy circles the Allen County Public LIbrary is, and regard his question worthwhile, so I thought it appropriate to pass it on to SOG-UK-L, and ask anyone who can help to respond directly to: "Ryan Taylor" <Rtaylor@acpl.lib.in.us> Cheers Brian Randell -- School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/