Sources

How we cite sources

Every documented sentence has a footnote. Each footnote names the record type, the place, the date, the entry or line number, and the person. If we saw an image of the record, we say where the image is held.

The pattern is: record type, place, date range, entry, person, holding repository.

Parish register

Sample

Glückstal (Kherson), Lutheran parish register, baptisms 1868, entry no. 41, Weber, Johann. Microfilm, image 112.

Passenger list

Sample

Passenger list, ship from Bremen to New York, arrived May 1889, line 212, Weber, Johann, 21, farmer.

Census

Sample

1900 U.S. census, Pierce County, North Dakota, Rugby township, ED 187, sheet 4A, dwelling 62, Weber household.

Land file

Sample

Homestead entry file, Devils Lake land office, final certificate, Weber, Johann, NE¼ Sec. 14. National Archives.