Sample Bibliography
Many genealogical researchers are not aware of how to write a bibliography or source footnotes. The bibliography that follows is one that I turned in with my research paper on my great grandmother, Rosa Isabel Randall Rosier. This follows the Turabian bibliographic form, which most historians use. Books should include author's name, title, publishing company, city of publication (and state or country if not widely known), date of publication. When footnoting you also include the pages used.
Example:
Bibliography:
Quinn, Dawn. Pretend Genealogical Book. Quinn Publishing House:
Windsor Locks, CT, 2003.
Footnote:
Dawn Quinn, Pretend Genealogical Book (Windsor Locks, CT: Quinn
Publishing House, 2003), 35-45.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts). February 10,
1940.
The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts). July 25,
1957.
Connecticut, Barkhamsted.
Town Clerk’s Office. Death
Records, 1907.
Connecticut, Hartland. Town Clerk’s Office. Birth
Records, 1900.
Connecticut, Hartland. Town
Clerk’s Office. Marriage
Records. 1895.
Connecticut, Torrington. City Clerk’s Office. Death
Records, 1959.
Connecticut, Winsted. Town Clerk’s Office. Birth Records,
1898, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1920, 1922.
Connecticut, Winsted. Town Clerk’s Office. Death Records,
1905, 1906, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1922.
Friedman, Steven Morgan.
The Inflation Calculator. Brooklyn,
NY. Available from
http://www.westegg.com/inflation/.
Internet.
Accessed April 5, 2003.
Kie, Barbara Isabel Newton.
Interview by author, March 24, 2003. Tape Recording. Pittsfield,
Massachusetts.
Kurian, George Thomas. Datapedia
of the United States 1790-2000: America Year by Year.
Lanham, MD: Bernan Press,
1994.
Massachusetts, North Adams. Northern Berkshire Registry of
Deeds. Land Records, Book 642, page 642.
Massachusetts, Pittsfield.
Berkshire County Probate Court. Guardianship
of Josephine Rosier, 1917.
Massachusetts, Pittsfield.
Berkshire County Probate Court. Probate
of Niles C Randall, 1924.
Massachusetts, Pittsfield.
Berkshire County Probate Court. Probate
of Rosa I Rosier, 1940.
Massachusetts, Pittsfield.
City Clerk’s Office. Birth
Records, 1917, 1925.
Massachusetts, Pittsfield.
City Clerk’s Office. Death
Records, 1940, 1944.
Massachusetts, Sandisfield. Town Clerk’s Office.
Birth Records, 1902.
Massachusetts, Sandisfield.
Town Clerk’s Office. Death
Records, 1903, 1924.
Massachusetts, Southwick.
Town Clerk’s Office. Death
Records, 1856, 1881, 1884.
Massachusetts, Springfield.
City Clerk’s Office. Death
Records, 1911.
Massachusetts, Tolland. Town Clerk’s Office. Birth
Records,1905, 1906, 1908.
My Family.Com. Social Security Death Index. Provo,
Utah. Available from
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=hotaling&firstname=ruth&nt=exact.
Internet.
Accessed April 5, 2003.
Randall, F.A. Randall
& Allied families: William Randall (1609-1693) of Scituate & His
Descendants with Ancestral
Families.
Salem, MA, Higginson Book Company, 1993.
Randall, Niles C. Civil
War Pension File. File C-2 559
253. National Archives.
Reynolds, Joyce Ann Hotaling. Interview by author. January
15, 2003. Phone Call.
Windsor Locks, Connecticut.
Social Security Administration. Application for Social Security Account Number.
Lucien Rosier.
File number 046-14-3248.
April 10, 1941.
Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. Passenger
Records. New York, New York.
Available
from http://www.ellisisland.org/search/index.asp?MID=04820192950017531808&;
Internet.
Accessed April 5, 2003.
United States. Department of Commerce.
Historical Statistics of the United States:
Colonial
Times to 1970.
Washington, D.C., 1975.
United States Population Schedules of the Tenth Census,
1880, Massachusetts, Hampden
County, Southwick.
Microfilm.
Hartland.
Microfilm.
County, Blandford.
Microfilm.
County, Great Barrington.
Microfilm.