Source Citation Guide
Conventions used by Price & Associates, Inc.
Below you will find sample citations for a variety of commonly-used published and unpublished sources.
Published Sources
Books
Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy (Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Inc., 1997).
Cecil R. Humphery-Smith, The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers (Chichester: Phillimore & Company Ltd., 2003).
CD-ROMs
British Isles Vital Records Index, CD-ROM (Salt Lake City, Utah: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2000).
Unpublished Sources
Census Records
1850 U.S. Census, Cayuga County, New York, p. 46, www.ancestry.com.
1900 U.S. Census, Aurelius Township, Cayuga County, New York, E.D. 109, Sheet 10A, www.heritagequestonline.com.
1901 British Census, Chedzoy, Somerset, England, p. 9, www.ancestry.com.
Court Records
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Orphan's Court Records 1719-1856, A:38, FHL 21843.
E-mail Communications
Richard W. Price, email@hidden.com, e-mail message to author, 6 March 2006.
Genealogy Forums
Richard W. Price, email@hidden.com, "Please Help Me Find My Ancestors," Price Surname Forum, http://genforum.genealogy.com/price/messages/100.html.
GEDCOM Databases
Richard W. Price, email@hidden.com, "Price Family," Ancestry World Tree, www.ancestry.com, accessed 6 March 2006.
Land Records
York County, Virginia, Deeds, Orders, and Wills, 20 Jan 1900, 8:209, FHL 34405.
Mailing Lists
Richard W. Price, email@hidden.com, "Thank You For Helping Me Find My Ancestors," Online Posting, 6 March 2006, PRICE-L@rootsweb.com, http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=PRICE.
Online Databases
"New York Passenger Lists," Ancestry, www.ancestry.com.
"International Genealogical Index," FamilySearch, www.familysearch.org.
Parish Registers
Church of England, Parish Registers of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, FHL 991366.
Probate Records
Will of Michael Walters, WD 20 Jan 1788, WP 20 Mar 1789, Bedford County, Virginia Will Book 21:261-262, FHL 860632.