Adding content to source citations

Question

I would like to add the content of a source to it's citation, to be of assistance to future researchers.  Has a standard been set for this?  And how can it be presented within the reference, within a profile?  If I copy / paste from a source transcription, the content follows the citation but does not appear to be linked.  If I copy/paste and then delete line spacing, etc., the content becomes an addition to the citation.  Ideally, the content could be in an additional paragraph immediately following the citation.  Is there a standard for this?  If not, any ideas or suggestions?  Please see Frost-323 to see what I have come up with.

Comments

I see he's a PGM immigrant; I've added the project as co-manager (for tracking purposes). 

Dick, how you've done this is one way of doing it. I really appreciate it when folks add pertinent details from the cited source. 

My preferred way (and what we encourage on PGM profiles) is to quote the pertinent piece in the narrative. For example:

John and Miriam married the day after he received his medical degree, in Buffalo, Erie, New York:

"22 June 1946: John Smith and Miriam Sess, both of here, were joined in marriage by me, Rev. Fred Jones." <ref>Marriage record of John Smith and Miriam Sess, Westside Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, Erie, New York; hard copy in possession of daughter Jillaine Smith... </ref>

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Alternatively, if you don't want the quoted text in the narrative for whatever reason, you could do it this way:

John and Miriam married the day after he received his medical degree.<ref>Marriage record of John Smith and Miriam Sess, Westside Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, Erie, New York; hard copy in possession of daughter Jillaine Smith...: "22 June 1946: John Smith and Miriam Sess, both of here, were joined in marriage by me, Rev. Fred Jones."</ref>

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One other thing, PGM volunteer Cheryl S is leading a sub-project focusing on Great Migration-era immigrants who settled outside of New England. Your William Frost falls into that category.

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I think your method is correct.  I do the same thing occasionally, especially if the original record may be hard to locate.  Example Taylor-26455.

Answer 1

What I do is integrate the content of the sources into the Biography and then use an in-line source citation to identify the source.  I don't know if that's considered a "standard" but I've seen others do it that way as well.

Answer 2

In this case, you should probably coordinate with the project. 

You can find more about citing sources in the help

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Sources

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Sources_Style_Guide

There are also some example profiles

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Examples

Answer 3

There are quite a few ways this can be done, it all just depends on your personal preference.

1. Profiles of Sources - If the source citation (and information reviewed) can be applied to multiple persons, and may be longer than what you would normally want to see in a source citation, you can create a Free-space profile that contains the information and link out to it.
   • As an example, see Řád Prapor Magnolie, číslo 65 and one of the associated profiles for John Clawson (see source #5).
2. You can include the information as you have done in the second bulleted reference on William's profile (inline without breaks).
3. If you stick with the references format (manually adding the citation under the ==Sources== header) then you manually add an indented bullet to hold the information. Example shown below in how you would present this on the edit version of the page:

*Burke, Sir John Bernard. Burke's American families with British ancestry: the lineages of 1,600 families. Reprinted: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975 & 1977. p. 2674.

**"William Frost, the Founder of this family in America, was born at Binsted, Hampshire, England, and was the son of John Frost, who settled in the Southern County on leaving Wales. In 1635 William sailed from England with his father, and settled in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born about 1630; married first before 20 May, 1673, Rebecca, daughter of Nicholas Wright, of Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and by her had issue: 1. William, of whom presently. 2. Wright. 1. Hannah. By his second wife, Eleanor (administratrix of her husband's estate, 1720), William Frost had further issue: 3. John. 4. Joseph. 5. David. 1. Mary

Comments

I tend to write one-sentence "biographies" (because my interest is genealogy, not biography), and in-line citations just don't work for my way of thinking, so I use your method 3, slightly differently formatted:

*[URL Source Title]
:transcription
:transcription
:transcription

An example of a source title is "FamilySearch Film #004836096 Image 225 of 776 (Baja, Bács-Bodrog, Hungary, civil registrations, births): Miskolczi László, 1900 Aug 9".

The colon is the solution I've found for circumventing WikiTree's insane appetite for line breaks. It was either that or hard HTML breaks ( < b r  / > , minus the extra spaces); I chose the colon because it's possible to type without changing keyboard layouts*, and besides, it allows some extra indenting to match the format of things like funeral notices (which often have the name of the deceased indented or centered).

*99% of my transcriptions are in Hungarian, for which I switch to a Hungarian keyboard layout, but I haven't a clue where the less-than sign is in that. Of course, it loses square brackets, too, so I always have to do some switching.

Answer 4

Dick, I have recently begun including all the source data in the citation for Holocaust profiles, because many of the sources are websites that only show the search page in their URLs, so the links require people to enter the name - sometimes a date of birth or town or country also - and then do the search to find the record.  For sites requiring paid subscriptions (i.e., ancestry), this way the information in the record is there for non-subscribers to see.  In addition, some of these sites are not English and difficult to understand.  In these cases, I include the translation of the data provided by googletranslate.com.  HERE is an example of the way I do this.

One word of caution, though - different projects will have differing preferences, so when a profile is in a project, it's probably best to communicate with the project.  They may want to adopt your style as their recommendation for all project profiles.

Answer 5

Whether you incorporate it into the biography (which is my preference for narrative material) or leave it as an add-on to the citation (my preference for census transcriptions or other document transcriptions, etc.), the only thing I would add would be to make it clear that is is quoted material and not your own words or paraphrase. To do that, I would italicize the quoted material. You can do that in a couple of ways. The easiest is to highlight the quoted section, then click on the "I" in the menu above the edit block. The other way is to add two single apostrophes at both the beginning and the end of the section. (It will look like quote marks, but it must be two single apostrophes to work to italicize what is being quoted.)