please advise in creating a source citation

vjdavis

I think that I'm getting myself confused. Could someone please help advise on creating a source for this book?

Catalog link: https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2049299?availability=Family%20History%20Library

The digitized book is available, however the individual pages do not appear to be static links (or at least this is what I've found in the past). When creating this as a source in my SourceBox, I believe my options are to either use the link to the FHL Catalog page, or perhaps copy the link that is on that page to the book itself.

On a separate issue: I do wish that we had the ability to copy a citation for a book to clipboard as we can with indexed sources. I know that I've figured out how to do citations before and have even made notes to follow, but I can't remember where I've put them.

Any help is much appreciated!

Julia Szent-Györgyi

In the book viewer (accessed by following the Catalog's "click here" link, and then clicking "view inside" a few times — minimum twice, sometimes more), there's a "Share" button; the last option in that menu is "copy link", and the top button on the resulting popup is "copy page link".

This results in a link like www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/448290/100, which should go straight to the page you were on. (Most browsers will take care of adding the "http://" at the beginning. So will FS's "Add Source" process.)

As you've doubtless figured out, the only required field in the "Create Source" popup is the title. I suppose in this case that would be something like "Pennsylvania German Pioneers: arrival of the Britannia in 1731". The URL field would be the link from the clipboard; as I said, it'll fill in the "http" part for you. For the Citation box, I'd use something like "Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808; by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, edited by William John Hinke. Pennsylvania German Society, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1934; volume I, page 47 (100 of 839 in the viewer)", and then I'd put the particular name(s) and ships and whatnot in the the Notes/Description field. For the sort-by date field, I think I'd use the arrival date from the particular page, not 1934.

Yes, that's more data entry than simply copying an auto-generated citation would be, but I find auto-citations to be useless in general, especially on FS: they tend to be full of unneeded nonsense and are often missing the actually-necessary details.

vjdavis

Thank you so much for the clear explanation and example, @Julia Szent-Györgyi ! I've followed along step-by-step and I think I've got it now. :-)