User:Magnoliasouth/Historical Records

DISCLAIMER THIS IS NOT A PROJECT PAGE!!! This is only an example of records that do not have a proper citation template. I am trying to examine how this can be done. If you have any comments, please comment on the talk page of this user page. This is a work in progress and will probably have further examples to demonstrate the different kinds of records and databases.

Example 1
In this example, we will use a death record of a man in Texas. This man is known to me, so no worries on privacy.

Historical archives nearly always have the same elements. The goal is to document each element. There is a database name, a database entry name, a database image with its own number (unless it's a transcript, so the format also must be recorded), a unique identifier of some sort (e.g., certificate/document numbers, record numbers, etc.) and then there is the original data. Since these are online archives, they are not the authors of the document itself, just the transcriptions or image scans. The original data is absolutely required for a citation, which includes its own author and so on. This is to try and address these problems so websites such as NARA, Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, LOC, Imperial War Museum, (UK) National Archives, etc. can be sourced properly and the way they want you to source them.

The following format is a mix of the genealogical must have for sourcing, called Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills and typical formatting so that non-genealogists can understand it better and work with the citations.

Should be rendered as...
This doesn't have to be exact and the subscription can be normal wiki formatting.