City Directories (Beta) Revisited

In an earlier post: City Directories - Citations there as a comment by an Anonymous Apr 29, 2012 05:13 PM reader. Basically it said that I didn't have it "right". So, I took a look at the details of the comment and agree that I wasn't sure to begin with. Happened to follow a Shaky Leaf hint this morning and had another City Directory (Beta) hit to give it another look.

This person is in Newark, New Jersey. In order to generate the correct Citation, I picked up the top line of what Ancestry.com provides, that it provides:

New Jersey, Newark, 1899-1901 - Holbrook's Directory Newark 1900.

The specific family is on Page 680.

The next trick, in this case, is to find who the Publisher was. Went to the beginning of the Directory and finally located the publishers, name, and location.

 Holbrook Newark Directory Company, Newark.

I selected the Digital Archive Template for this Directory. Clicked on Add, New, and typed "dig" as the Keyword (for Digital) and selected that template.

The date to enter is:

• Collection: U S City Directories, 1821-1989 
• Collection format: digital archives
• Website creator/owner: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc
• Website title: Ancestry.com
• URL: www.ancestry.com
• Year: 2011
• Comments

That information came from the Source Description from Ancestry.com.

For the Citation detail: I entered

entry for Agnes Steiger Klepp accessed: 07 May 2012

and the Citation text:

citing Holbrook's Directory, Newark 1900 Holbrook Directory Company;  (Newark, New Jersey) page 680

So the Reference Note is:

"U S City Directories, 1821-1989", Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com), entry for Agnes Steiger Klepp accessed: 07 May 2012. citing Holbrook's Direcotry, Newark 1900 Holbrook Directory Company;  (Newark, New Jersey) page 680..

 (just noticed a typo in the image) But the Reference note is correct.

Again, the sequence of the Text in the Reference Note is controlled by the Template selected, and the information that is put in the Citation Details, and Citation Text fields. The formatting of the text is under the control of FTM2012.

I am changing my City Directory (Beta) entries to this format.


Lesson Learned: Evidence Explained! is a great resource. But sometimes identifying the right template, based on that resource, is difficult when working with Online Resources.  (for me at least)
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City Directories - Citations

During the 1940 Census Preparation, I found that the use of City Directories were very helpful. But, how to cite them using the Family Tree Maker Template Feature.

Here is the Ancestry.com City Directory (Beta) version that came with a Web Search.

http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2469

It had the Street address, occupation, place of employment for the person in question.

First, go to the Sources Workspace, select the Add ICON and that will bring up a window where you can select a New Source.

The next window will present a window where you can enter a Keyword (or the first 3 characters of what you have in your hands). In this case, there weren't any Keyword results for City Directory. So, I selected More, and did some choosing.

 
The best selection is Publication - Books, CDs, Maps, Leaflets & Videos. With the two pull down menus, I selected Categories of Image Copies, and Online Publications. That described what I was presented from Ancestry.com.

Looking at the Top of the Image, I was able to fill in the fields in the Template form.

The Prompts pointed me to Polk & Co', for the "Surname" field, and R. I. for Given Name.

I filled in what information that was provided.

Linking the Citation to the Fact, the Citation looks like this.

Citation Detail:

West Chester, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1930-31, p. 98

Citation Text:

Record for Jacob Finley

The resulting Reference Note is:

R. L. Polk & Co's, West Chester, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1930 (1930-31), West Chester, Pennsylvania, City Directory, 1930-31, p. 98. Record for Jacob Finkey; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com).

Just to check what the EndNote looks like, I ran a report to see the EndNote:

That is in the format, as I understand it, based on Evidence Explained!

Please visit Elizabeth Shown Mill's website:

https://www.evidenceexplained.com/

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