{"id":17265,"date":"2023-11-05T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T20:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17265"},"modified":"2023-11-05T14:17:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T20:17:49","slug":"sourcing-that-church-bulletin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/05\/sourcing-that-church-bulletin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourcing that Church Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1956-confrimations-1-1024x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1956-confrimations-1-1024x402.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1956-confrimations-1-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1956-confrimations-1-768x301.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1956-confrimations-1.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My mother&#8217;s confirmation class was listed in the church bulletin on the day she was confirmed. There&#8217;s not a lot special I have to do in order to create a source citation for this document. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My source citation needs to include enough information for someone (or me later) to try and locate the bulletin elsewhere (perhaps in the church&#8217;s archives or a regional church archives). It also needs to include information to help me find the item of interest within the bulletin. Since the item may be rare or impossible to find, I&#8217;m also going to include that it was in my private collection of materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Name and location of church.<\/li><li>Date of service.<\/li><li>Page in bulletin.<\/li><li>I don&#8217;t have any other publication information as these bulletins were probably printed at a local print shop.<\/li><li>Since this may be a unique or difficult to find item at this point, I will indicate that it is in my collection of materials. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Formatting the citation does matter, but the immediate goal is getting the crucial items recorded: enough detail to allow someone else to find the same bulletin elsewhere and, since the item might be rare, letting others know where the original is located. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother&#8217;s confirmation class was listed in the church bulletin on the day she was confirmed. There&#8217;s not a lot special I have to do in order to create a source citation for this document. My source citation needs to include enough information for someone (or me later) to try and locate the bulletin elsewhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}