My cousin recently got engaged, which was announced on Facebook. How do I cite this? Are there any elements that are specific to social media? -- Sue Adams Family Folk Blog: http://familyfolklore.wordpress.com/

Good question, Sue! I'm a regular user of FB, but now that you ask I'm not sure I understand this source well enough to make a suggestion. You can consult Evidence Explained 2.33 and 14.25-30. That said, Facebook posts seem to me to be more fugitive than podcasts or blogs or mailing lists. Do they have their own URLs? How would you locate the engagement announcement again in a year, say? Or ten? Giving the date of viewing might not be enough. So I wonder . . . is citing a Facebook post more like citing an email or a telephone call than anything else? At my current stage of ignorance, I might download or print the relevant FB post, label it, and cite it as a personal holding in my research file (an adaptation of EE 3.42, perhaps). I look forward to hearing more from those who are better grounded in the 21st century! Harold On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Sue Adams <sueyadams@gmail.com> wrote: > My cousin recently got engaged, which was announced on Facebook. How do > I cite this? Are there any elements that are specific to social media? > > -- > > Sue Adams > > Family Folk > > Blog: http://familyfolklore.wordpress.com/ > > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive > environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to > professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Harold Henderson midwestroots.net Research, Writing, and Brickwall Dismantling from Northwest Indiana Regularly Researching at the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Certified Genealogist (SM) No. 1029 Certified Genealogist and CG are proprietary service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® used by the Board to identify its program of genealogical competency evaluation and used under license by the Board’s associates.