Hi, all I'm coming back to you again for help with citations. The graders for the Home Study Course at the NGS are telling us time and again to add citations to any documents we download or copy as soon as we download and copy them. I can see the wisdom in that, as stacks of paper and digital document folders tend to grow, and sometimes we forget exactly where these things were found. So I have been adding full footnote citations to each image I use for the course, and I file them with those citations for my exhibits folders for The Master Genealogist. But what do you do for a citation for an image that has multiple entries for "item of interest"? An example of my quandary.... _Evidence Explained_ 6.25 1850 US Census, Population Schedules, (p277) Online Images (Ancestry) shows the First Reference Note containing the dwelling number and family number along with the name of the persons of interest (The Earp brothers Virgil and Wyatt). In my research, I have a page of the 1850 census, population schedule, for Sandy Run, Rutherford County, North Carolina. This single page has 6 households and 8 families, 4 households and 5 families of which are of interest to me in my research into the Lovelace family. How am I to do a single source citation for this image to attach to my image for later reference? Do I need a separate duplicate image for each household and follow EE to the letter, or do I use a single image and list all the households and their heads in a single citation? Any guidance would be appreciated. At present, I am working on the migration lesson of the course, and am trying to get all my source citations in proper format for the final report for this lesson. Thank you all in advance.... Peace, Part of the Tree, Greg

There are really two responses to this message. The first answers your immediate question: If you are using (and citing) multiple households, then I would definitely include all of them in a single citation, either like this . . . households 23-25, families 26-28, John Smith, Joseph Smith, and Robert Brown households . . . or like this . . . household 23, family 26, John Smith household, and household 25, family 28, Robert Brown household . . . The second is in response to that part of your question about "follow[ing] EE to the letter": Evidence Explained is not a catch-all list of citation models. It uses many examples to demonstrate principles that we can use **and adapt** to create appropriate citations for any source we may come across. One cannot follow it to the letter, because, as Ms. Mills repeatedly states on this list, in her courses, and indeed in the beginning of Evidence Explained: "Citation is an art, not a science." Part of creating a citation is thinking critically about the source in front of us, and EE cannot accomplish this for us. I hope my response helps with this and future citations. Michael Hait, CG(sm) michael.hait@hotmail.com http://www.haitfamilyresearch.com "Planting the Seeds" Blog: http://michaelhait.wordpress.com CG and Certified Genealogist are service marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic competency evaluation, and the board name is registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Lovelace Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 8:06 PM To: TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM@rootsweb.com Subject: [TGF] Another question on citations Hi, all I'm coming back to you again for help with citations. The graders for the Home Study Course at the NGS are telling us time and again to add citations to any documents we download or copy as soon as we download and copy them. I can see the wisdom in that, as stacks of paper and digital document folders tend to grow, and sometimes we forget exactly where these things were found. So I have been adding full footnote citations to each image I use for the course, and I file them with those citations for my exhibits folders for The Master Genealogist. But what do you do for a citation for an image that has multiple entries for "item of interest"? An example of my quandary.... _Evidence Explained_ 6.25 1850 US Census, Population Schedules, (p277) Online Images (Ancestry) shows the First Reference Note containing the dwelling number and family number along with the name of the persons of interest (The Earp brothers Virgil and Wyatt). In my research, I have a page of the 1850 census, population schedule, for Sandy Run, Rutherford County, North Carolina. This single page has 6 households and 8 families, 4 households and 5 families of which are of interest to me in my research into the Lovelace family. How am I to do a single source citation for this image to attach to my image for later reference? Do I need a separate duplicate image for each household and follow EE to the letter, or do I use a single image and list all the households and their heads in a single citation? Any guidance would be appreciated. At present, I am working on the migration lesson of the course, and am trying to get all my source citations in proper format for the final report for this lesson. Thank you all in advance.... Peace, Part of the Tree, Greg 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