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This list is to collect examples that help to illustrate the rules for Source page titles. At present they are meant for discussion to decide on the best form. Eventually it is hoped that they will guide users in naming Source pages.
The main help page supporting the titling of source pages is Help:Source page titles. If there are conflicts between what is exemplified here and what the main help page recommends, err on the side of taking the main help page recommendations as editing this page may lag revisions to format recommendations.
Federal government records - Place. Record group
- Example: Source:United States, Congress. American State Papers, Class VIII: Public Lands
- Example: Source:United States, General Land Office [would this also do for their online database, 1796-1907?]
- Example: Source:United States, National Archives. Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900
- Example: Source:United States. Social Security Death Index
- [Need examples of passenger lists & naturalization files.]
Census [federal & state, from whoever's microfilm or from Ancestry]
- Example: Source:Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule
- Example: Source:Monroe, Iowa, United States. 1895 Iowa State Census
- [Need some non-U.S. examples, please.]
State-level records [not attributable to a specific author who published a collection/compilation]
- Example: Source:Ohio, United States. Birth Certificate - page for actual birth certificates held by state registrar
- Example: Source:Iowa, United States. Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion
- Example: Source:California, United States. Death Index, 1940-1997 - discrete record set for limited dates published by the state
- Example: Source:Pennsylvania Archives [do not include series no. - put that in the page text]
County/city-level records [not attributable to a specific author who published a collection/compilation]
- Example: Source:Dallas, Iowa, United States. Births - Birth records held by the County
- Example: Source:Dallas, Iowa, United States. Birth Records, 1860-1937; Index, 1867-1937 - FHC record set for limited dates
- Example: Source:Orange, Virginia, United States. Court records
- Example: Source:Dallas, Iowa, United States. Marriages 1880-1926 - book with just those dates published by historical society; place omitted from title
- Example: Source:Dallas, Iowa, United States. Probate records
- Example: Source:Dallas, Iowa, United States. Tax lists
Records published by a Society or organization - same as above
Church records - [need examples of all the ways these appear]
- Example: Source:United States, Louisiana, Winn Parish. Mount Zion Methodist Church Register
- Example: Source:United States, Louisiana. Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church Records
- [NOTE: This series includes records from 1707, from all over south Louisiana + Natchez; would a geographical style of entry be too tortured?]
- Example: Source:United States, Virginia, Middlesex. The Vestry book of Christ Church Parish, 1663-1767.
Records collections (authored) Author. Title (One author, name as given on work, omit subtitles unless it will cause confusion)
- Example: Source:Meldrum, Charlotte D. Early church records of Burlington County, New Jersey
- Example: Source:Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850
Typescript (unpublished) - Author. Title.
Books in series [Library of Congress uses a single listing]
- Example: Source:Connecticut, United States. Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Barbour wasn't author, he was the examiner of public records that headed the project]
- Example: Source:Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633
- Example: Source:Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635
Series of compiled records [various compilers and places]
- Example: Source:Acadian church records
Published under the same name with editions named after the first
- [need examples]
Published under same name without named editions - use year
- Example: Source:Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens (1965)
- Example: Source:Arsenault, Bona. Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens (1978 ed)
Journals and other periodicals [whether authored or not authored; do not include specifics of article]
- Example: Source:Vance Family Association Newsletter
Newspapers
- Example: Source:United States, Iowa, Mahaska. Oskaloosa Sunday Globe
Websites Use Author.Title (Create as a Source Page only if 1) you are citing information created by the author of the page, as opposed to content also available elsewhere (like a transcription); and 2) the cited information is of high quality and of interest to more than just a few people or their descendants.)
- Example: Source:Caleb Johnson. MayflowerHistory.com
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