Joy,
As a person who has to read an awful lot of history, both in books and
online, I prefer footnotes at the bottom of the page and not in endnotes at
the end of the book or on a different page of endnotes that I to which I
could link. The idea of bookmarking each footnote so that the number of the
footnote within the paragraph can be 'clicked' and then back again is how I
read. I go from the footnote number to the bottom of the page and then back
up again. Footnote reading is a process that interrupts the flow of reading
no matter where it is. I find keeping track on another page is harder to do
when reading then if it is on the same page. This applies both printed and
virtual. It is just my preference. My son, also a historian, prefers
endnotes though I have not asked him about virtual papers. My two cents for
what it is worth.
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joy Fisher" <irwin_ga2004(a)yahoo.com>
To: <GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:19 PM
Subject: [GAGEN] Footnotes
How do y'all handle footnotes when transcribing
history books? I would like your opinion. In the past,
I have just kept them as footnotes at the bottom of
the virtual page like this:
======================================
p. 2
At that time the Cherokees were in possession of
the southern Allegheny region extending from the
headstreams of the Kanawha and the Tennessee southward
almost to the site of the present Atlanta, and from
the Blue ridge on the east to the Cumberland range on
the west. This area is now included in the states of
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Alabama and Georgia.*
They were the mountaineers of the south holding the
great mountain barrier between the English settlements
on the Atlantic seacoast and the Spanish and French
garrisons on the Gulf region and along the
Mississippi.
They called themselves Yun-wi-yah, meaning real or
principal people. The name Cherokee has been given
several interpretations. One authority says it came
from A-che-la, meaning "He takes fire," the belief
being that the Great Spirit gave the Cherokees a
sacred fire, which must be kept perpetually burning.**
Their northern kinsmen, the Iroquois, called them
Oyata'-ge-ronon-"inhabitants of the cave
country"-which is unlike any other mountainous area in
North America. Fickett tells us "their whole country
was the most beautiful and romantic in the known
world. Their springs of delicious water gushed out of
every hill and mountain side. Their lovely rivers
meandered through fertile valleys and rushed over
cataracts and through mountain gaps. The forests were
full of game, the rivers abounded with fish, and the
mountains with fruit."***
Adair, the historian and trader, who lived for
forty years among the American Indians, says, "the
natives make two divisions of their country, Ayrate
(low); Ottare (mountainous)."**** Later writers make
three divisions-lower, middle and upper Cherokee.
Tdheir principal towns lay upon the head-
____________
*Mooney, James, Myths of the Cherokee, in
Nineteenth Annual, Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, p. 14.
Note: James Mooney is an acknowledged authority on
Cherokee Indian history. His book, "Myths of the
Cherokee", is an invaluable contribution to American
Ethnology. He wrote from material gathered from
association with the Cherokees living in western North
Carolina (1887). He supplemented this with information
obtained in the Indian Territory, chiefly from old
Cherokees who had emigrated west from Georgia and
Tennessee.
** Starr, Emmet, Early History of Cherokees, p. 7.
***Pickett, Albert, J., History of Alabama, p. 14.
****Adair, J., History of the American Indians
(1735-1755), p. 237.
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However, this seems to be cumbersome, especially when
the text ends a page with part of a hyphenated word.
I could use end notes and put all of the notes at the
end of a chapter, but then you have to do a lot of
scrolling to see what the note refers to.
I then thought about embedding the notes in the text
and I like the way it looks. Here is the same page
with the notes embedded:
===========================================
p. 2
At that time the Cherokees were in possession of
the southern Allegheny region extending from the
headstreams of the Kanawha and the Tennessee southward
almost to the site of the present Atlanta, and from
the Blue ridge on the east to the Cumberland range on
the west. This area is now included in the states of
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Alabama and Georgia.[*Mooney, James, Myths of the
Cherokee, in Nineteenth Annual, Rep. Bureau of
Ethnology, p. 14. Note: James Mooney is an
acknowledged authority on Cherokee Indian history. His
book, "Myths of the Cherokee", is an invaluable
contribution to American Ethnology. He wrote from
material gathered from association with the Cherokees
living in western North Carolina (1887). He
supplemented this with information obtained in the
Indian Territory, chiefly from old Cherokees who had
emigrated west from Georgia and Tennessee.]
They were the mountaineers of the south holding the
great mountain barrier between the English settlements
on the Atlantic seacoast and the Spanish and French
garrisons on the Gulf region and along the
Mississippi.
They called themselves Yun-wi-yah, meaning real or
principal people. The name Cherokee has been given
several interpretations. One authority says it came
from A-che-la, meaning "He takes fire," the belief
being that the Great Spirit gave the Cherokees a
sacred fire, which must be kept perpetually
burning.[Starr, Emmet, Early History of Cherokees, p.
7.] Their northern kinsmen, the Iroquois, called them
Oyata'-ge-ronon-"inhabitants of the cave
country"-which is unlike any other mountainous area in
North America. Fickett tells us "their whole country
was the most beautiful and romantic in the known
world. Their springs of delicious water gushed out of
every hill and mountain side. Their lovely rivers
meandered through fertile valleys and rushed over
cataracts and through mountain gaps. The forests were
full of game, the rivers abounded with fish, and the
mountains with fruit."[Pickett, Albert, J., History of
Alabama, p. 14.]
Adair, the historian and trader, who lived for
forty years among the American Indians, says, "the
natives make two divisions of their country, Ayrate
(low); Ottare (mountainous)."[Adair, J., History of
the American Indians (1735-1755), p. 237] Later
writers make three divisions-lower, middle and upper
Cherokee. Tdheir principal towns lay upon the head-
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