I want to bounce a citation off the group. I'm citing a two page unpublished, privately held, family history. It contains appended information, by another family member, about a separate branch of the family. The portion of the document I am citing is the appended information about the separate branch of the family. Not the family in the main family history. The only way I can think of to clearly create the citation is with descriptive sentences regarding following the citation. I also added the name of the person who appended the information as an author. I appreciate any suggestions or input. Prack, Wm (San Francisco, California) and Caroline (Ebling) Bindon (Three Oaks, Berrien County, Michigan), Relative the History of the Prack Family, before 1970; privately held by M. Goodrum [address for private use,] Mesa, Arizona, 2015. This two page document outlines Wm. Prack's ancestry. It is appended with a statement by his niece, Caroline (Ebling) Bindon outlining more recent Prack family members and Caroline's Ebling/Ebeling aunts and uncles. The current owner obtained the document from C. Fuller daughter of Caroline Bindon. Thank you in advance. -- Michelle Goodrum

Michelle, as I read through your proposed citation, it triggered a couple of questions and a couple of other thoughts: - Does the manuscript have a formal title? If so, then it needs to be in quotation marks. - Is "before 1970" part of the title or is that your estimate of when the manuscript was prepared? - When citing a manuscript, the authors' places of residence usually aren't cited in the author field. - The inclusion of Bindon (author of the appendix) as author prior to citing the document left me a bit confused, thinking that Prack and Bindon wrote the first manuscript together; then I had to sort out the other relationships. Does the following express things accurately? Wm. Prack, "Relative the History of the Prack Family before 1970," MS, San Francisco, Calif., undated, with undated appendix by Carolina (Ebling) Bindon, Prack's niece of Three Oaks, Michigan, outlining post-1870 family members; copy of both items supplied by Bindon's daughter, C. Fuller, to Michelle Goodrum, Mesa, Arizona; held 2015 by Goodrum. Elizabeth --------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG www.HistoricPathways.com www.EvidenceExplained.com & for everyday tips on records and record usage: https://www.evidenceexplained.com/quicktips/ee www.Facebook.com/ForgottenPeopleCaneRiverCreoles ---- I want to bounce a citation off the group. I'm citing a two page unpublished, privately held, family history. It contains appended information, by another family member, about a separate branch of the family. The portion of the document I am citing is the appended information about the separate branch of the family. Not the family in the main family history. The only way I can think of to clearly create the citation is with descriptive sentences regarding following the citation. I also added the name of the person who appended the information as an author. I appreciate any suggestions or input. Prack, Wm (San Francisco, California) and Caroline (Ebling) Bindon (Three Oaks, Berrien County, Michigan), Relative the History of the Prack Family, before 1970; privately held by M. Goodrum [address for private use,] Mesa, Arizona, 2015. This two page document outlines Wm. Prack's ancestry. It is appended with a statement by his niece, Caroline (Ebling) Bindon outlining more recent Prack family members and Caroline's Ebling/Ebeling aunts and uncles. The current owner obtained the document from C. Fuller daughter of Caroline Bindon. Thank you in advance. -- Michelle Goodrum ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message