How Do You Cite as a Source a Plaque IN a Precinct for a Fallen Policeman Which Details His Heroism

By Scott_J May 20, 2010 3058 views 2 comments

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Scott_J

Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills has a page on Memorial Plaques in a cemetery. (page 216) I would think this also applies to a plaque in a police precinct, of course replacing the Cemetery with the police precinct.

Source List Entry
Cemetery, Location, Item Type or Format

Example:
Congregation Beth Am Sanctuary (Alamonte Springs, Florida). Yahrzeit (memorial) plaques.

First (Full) Reference Note
1. Cemetery, Location, Item, Data collection Info, Date Read or Photographed

Example:
1. Congregation Beth Am Sanctuary (Alamonte Springs, Florida), Arthur B Friedman yahrzeit (memorial) plaque; Photographed by Gladys Friedman Paulin, 1 October 2005

Subsequent Short Note
11. Cemetery, Location, Item

Example:
11. Congregation Beth Am Sanctuary (Alamonte Springs, Fla), Arthur B. Friedman yahrzeit plaque.

Source: Mills, Elizabeth Shown. _Evidence Explained_. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007. p 216

allycat

I would put in the geographical coordinates / Google Earth link and a photograph of the plaque.