{"id":1009,"date":"2015-09-04T03:36:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2015-09-04T04:09:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T04:09:29","slug":"from-whence-that-ancestry-com-probate-material-came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"From Whence that Ancestry.com Probate Material Came?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"which-volume\"<\/p>\n

I’m not certain what the “correct” way is to cite the new probate materials on\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em>, but I do know that I will be trying to obtain as much citation detail as I can for each item I locate on this site. It’s not overly difficult and it’s not impossible, but it does take some time.\u00a0And it is important because I need to know where I got what I got. Just saying it came from the “probate database” on\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em> is not sufficient.<\/p>\n

This item for Barbara Haa\"bookforbarbara\"<\/a>s in Hancock County, Illinois indicated that the page on the screen comes from “Vol O-Q.” That’s not just one volume and that’s a reference that’s likely used by Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>because volumes O, P, and Q are all on the same roll of microfilm and it’s easier to simply call it one “volume” instead of sorting it out where one volume stops and another one starts. Remember that\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em> didn’t create most of these images from scratch themselves. They used microfilm from the Family History Library.<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>might not be too concerned about precisedly which volume the item comes from, I am.<\/p>\n

Moving backwards on the film, I eventually landed on the image for the actual cover of the book, which indicated it was volume P.<\/p>\n

The spine also indicated that I was looking in the “Administrators & Executors Report.” Sometimes that information is not always clear from looking in the results from this database.<\/p>\n

My citation needs to include that this page came from volume P of the Adminstrators & Executor’s Report from Hancock County, Illinois and that I obtained the digital image from\u00a0Ancestry.com.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Note: The\u00a0\u201cprobate database<\/a>\u201d at\u00a0Ancestry.com<\/em> can be searched on their site. Just make certain to include citation information.<\/p>\n

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I’m not certain what the “correct” way is to cite the new probate materials on\u00a0Ancestry.com, but I do know that I will be trying to obtain as much citation detail as I can for each item I locate on this site. It’s not overly difficult and it’s not impossible, but it does take some time.\u00a0And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}