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From: "Mills" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Census - What is the source?
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:58:45 -0600
In-Reply-To: <111.3e753dc9.2edf969a@aol.com>


Marie wrote:

<If Kevin is using the NARA citation format, they do include the Repository
as
part of the citation.
http://www.archives.gov/publications/general_information_leaflets/17.html#Fe
de
ral>

Ahh, yes, NARA! On the one hand, it's their records and their film, so they
can make the citation as long and unwieldy as they want it to be <g> --
which is why Chicago Manual* and most other style guides ignore NARA's
Leaflet 17. In fact, even NARA's own journal (Prologue) ignores those
"rules" set forth in Leaflet No. 17!

And, of course, NARA's preferred method cites microfilmed material as though
we consulted the original, and just inserts NARA film number in parentheses.
Its model does not cite at all the title of the microfilm, as listed in
NARA's own microfilm catalog. Is this why even NARA's own *Guide to
Genealogical Research in the National Archives* (3d ed.) ignores Leaflet 17
and cites film by exact title and publication number instead of six levels
of archival hierarchy?

No wonder we all stay so confused!

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
*Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian*

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