Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Source Citation for New Brunswick Land Deed Record

IUsing New Brunswick County Deed Registry Books, I said that I would craft a source citation for the specific deed in the Deed database later.  Reader Cormac commented:  "Can ya share with us when you do craft that EE quality citation?"

Well, of course I can!  I used the RootsMagic 6 Source template for "Digital Archives:" 




The resulting source citation for one of the Deeds is (Master source entries in red, Source detail in blue):

"New Brunswick, County Deed Registry Books, 1780-1941," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 17 January 2013), clerk's copy, "Kings County, Deed Book D-1, 1793-1795," page 75-76, William Hutchison to Donal McDonal; 
citing Registrar of Deeds. New Brunswick, county deed registry books, 1780-1941. Service New Brunswick, Woodstock, New Brunswick.

The FamilySearch provided general source citation for this particular record collection is:

"New Brunswick, County Deed Registry Books, 1780-1930." Images. FamilySearch. https://familysearch.org : accessed 2013. Citing Registrar of Deeds. New Brunswick, county deed registry books, 1780-1941. Service New Brunswick, Woodstock, New Brunswick.


I added the creator and owner of the website - the LDS church - to the source citation because it was a field in the Evidence! Explained Master source template.

Using the RootsMagic source templates provides an excellent source citation every time.  Note that I had to identify the specific Deed book, and the page numbers.  Once you select a template, understand the entries in the fields, and have the citation details at hand, you can create this source citation in two minutes at most.  

You can then use the Master Source for any entry in the FamilySearch database, but you have to enter the Source details for each specific Deed entry.  For the next deed on my Event list, I usually Copy the whole citation (using the "Memorize" button), then "Paste" it into a new Event source citation, and edit the bits that need to be modified.  


Copyright (c) 2013, Randall J. Seaver

2 comments:

Cormac said...

Thanks, Randy. :-)

Claire Keenan Agthe said...

I'm sure it's probably evident from the event / place to which you link this source, but reading just the source itself, I can't help wondering, Is this New Brunswick, Canada, or New Brunswick, NJ, or some other New Brunswick (Indiana)? My first thought was Maine, but there's no "New" there, just plain old "Brunswick." Shouldn't the full place location be in the citation to be really clear to researchers?