Magna Carta Ancestry

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Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families

Click here for the source page for Royal Ancestry & here for a list of sources used in Richardson's Ancestry Series.

The second edition of Magna Carta Ancestry has four volumes (I, II, III, IV) and is divided into chapters (family name or lordship) with numbered entries. In the examples, the Beauchamp chapter in volume I spans pages 134 through 150; entry number 6 in the chapter is on page 142. The volume, page(s), chapter, and entry information in the examples will probably not be appropriate for the profile you are working on, so you will need to replace the details (volume, page, chapter, entry) to be correct for the information you are citing.

Bibliography:

Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.

Note:

Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume I, pages 134-150 BEAUCHAMP.

Short Note:

Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, I:142 BEAUCHAMP 6.

The sections below provide details and copy/paste-able versions, as well as the recommended use for profiles managed by the Magna Carta Project.

First Inline Citation

The style is based on the Notes style of Evidence Explained. It should be a named ref (MCA) and link to Google Books' snippit view of the first page of the chapter cited. Use it the first time you reference Magna Carta Ancestry (see below for recommended use for project profiles).

<ref name="MCA">Douglas Richardson. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PA134 volume I, pages 134-150] BEAUCHAMP.</ref>

results in:^[1]

Note: Don't forget to change the specific volume, page, chapter, and number from the example to reflect what you are citing. Change the URL to Google Books' snippit view of the first page of the chapter you are citing (or delete the URL link).

Note 2: Since it took me YEARS to figure out how to link to a specific Google Books page that was not in volume I... here's an example with a link to a page in volume IV:

<ref name="mcaIV200">Douglas Richardson. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=RA3-PA200#v=onepage&q&f=false volume IV, page 200] TONY 3.</ref>

results in:^[2]

subsequent references (for first example):

<ref name="MCA" />

results in:^[1]

Second Inline Citation

The style is based on the Short Notes style of Evidence Explained. It should be a named ref^[3] and link to the Google Books' snippit view of the specific page being referenced (or the first page, if more than one). Include the specific entry number of the chapter where the information can be found (see below for recommended use for project profiles).

<ref name="mcaI142">Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry,'' [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PA142 I:142] BEAUCHAMP 6.</ref>

results in:^[4]

Note: Don't forget to change the specific volume, page, chapter, and number from the example to reflect what you are citing (and delete or change the URL also).

subsequent references:

<ref name="mcaI142" />

results in:^[4]

Bibliography

The style is based on the Bibliography style of Evidence Explained, with the added note linking to this WikiTree source page:

* Richardson, Douglas. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for ''[[Space:Magna Carta Ancestry|Magna Carta Ancestry]].''

results in:

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.

Reliability

Magna Carta Ancestry is one of Douglas Richardson's "Royal Ancestry series" (another being Plantagenet Ancestry, each with second editions published in 2011). Richardson's editor for these series, including the five-volume Royal Ancestry (2013), was Kimball G. Everingham. Royal Ancestry and the 2nd editions of Magna Carta Ancestry (four volumes) and Plantagenet Ancestry (three volumes) were published by the author.

Richardson's works are considered reliable.^[5]

Magna Carta Project's Recommended Use

Background: Magna Carta Ancestry (2011) and Royal Ancestry (2013) are the foundational references used by the Magna Carta Project to develop profiles in trails between the Gateway Ancestors documented in these works to a Magna Carta Surety Baron.^[6] The Magna Carta Project recommends checking for updates to Magna Carta Ancestry in Royal Ancestry when possible. The project does not recommend Plantagenet Ancestry as a source for Magna Carta Project profiles because its focus was not on descendants of the Magna Carta Surety Barons.^[7] See additional information about Magna Carta-related sources on the Magna Carta Project Reliable Sources page.

When developing a Magna Carta Project profile, the Magna Carta Project recommends using all three forms when citing Magna Carta Ancestry, even if you are not using multiple Richardson references. This way, a reference to the relevant chapter(s) can be easily found, the specific facts being cited to Richardson have specific references, and the profile will have a link back to this page, which has additional information. The project recommends including a Richardson citation to genealogical information (birth, death, marriage, and parent/child relationships), even after a primary source has been identified and added to the profile (although there are exceptions, which would be discussed with project members as they arise).

Specifics:

The first inline citation - the first time you cite Magna Carta Ancestry - should include the volume and pages for the relevant chapter (family name or lordship) or chapters. Frequently, parents or children will be covered in a different chapter, so more than one chapter may be relevant to the person whose profile you're working on and should be cited.

This first inline citation should be used following the first use of the name of the person represented by the profile. For project profiles, this seems to work best when the person's name in bold is on a line by itself just below the == Biography == heading, either with or without additional information. For example:

== Biography ==

'''Thomas de Beauchamp''', K.G., 11th Earl of Warwick^[1]

The second inline citation is specific to a chapter's entry. If all of the information in a sentence or paragraph is from the specific entry, the citation can go at the end of the sentence or paragraph. If information from another source is included in the sentence or paragraph, then citations should be used as needed to show what information came from what source. Following is an example from Elizabeth (Butler) Claiborne's profile:

Elizabeth Butler, of Little Birch, Essex, England,^[8] was born before 1612.^[9][10][11]

The bibliography style entry should be included in the bulleted list of sources.

Even if using all three styles in a profile seems redundant (which they will, if the profile is sourced to only one Richardson entry), please add them anyway, as it is to be hoped that additional details and sources will be added in the future.

Links

Information about Magna Carta Ancestry available online:

• https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&source=gbs_navlinks_s - Google Books, snippit view (searchable, but not all pages are viewable)
• https://www.worldcat.org/ - WorldCat.org, entry for Magna Carta Ancestry; WorldCat link to Royal ancestry series
• https://www.FamilySearch.org - entry for Magna Carta Ancestry (information only)
• https://royalancestry.net - the author's home page for the Royal Ancestry series (for both information and sales)

ISBN 1461045207 ^[12]

Bibliography

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume I, pages 134-150 BEAUCHAMP.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume IV, page 200 TONY 3.
3. ↑ lowercase mca with the volume (Roman numeral) and page number (Arabic numeral); e.g., "mcaI142" or "mcaIV32"
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, I:142 BEAUCHAMP 6.
5. ↑ For other "Reliable Sources" for pre-1700 profiles, see links under this category.
6. ↑ If you are working on Magna Carta Project profiles, please see this section of the project's Reliable Sources page.
7. ↑ Also, descendants' entries in Magna Carta Ancestry have updates not included in Plantagenet Ancestry, even though the 2nd editions of both were published the same year. Do not use the first edition of either for project profiles. The following (Bibliography style) for the first edition of Magna Carta Ancestry is provided for convenience:
   • Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2005.
   For citations to the first and second editions of Plantagenet Ancestry, see WikiTree's source page for Plantagenet Ancestry.
8. ↑ Marlyn Lewis. "Elizabeth Butler, entry in Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" database (2 Feb. 2019).
9. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, I:385-387 BLETSOE 18.i.
10. ↑ Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, I:220 BLETSOE 13.i.a.(3).
11. ↑ "born ca 1610 in Roxwell, Essex, England" per Sanders (http://oursoutherncousins.com/Claiborne.html).
12. ↑ Library of Congress (LOC) Catalogue Card Number 2010902846
    International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 1461045207
    Soft cover ISBNs:
    • 1449966373 (Volume I)
    • 1449966381 (Volume II)
    • 144996639X (Volume III)
    • 1460992709 (Volume IV)

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