Every devoted genealogist is concerned with citations in their analysis for their genealogy. Accurate citations are necessary so that the evidence can be judged and if necessary allows for the research to be repeated. The author makes it easy to help genealogists (particularly the non-expert) to make sense out of citations and to improve their genealogy search. THIS BOOK IS CONSIDERED A GENEALOGY "MUST!"

Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian

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Elizabeth Shown Mills

Elizabeth S. Mills

Mills, Elizabeth S.

Genealogy

Genealogical Publishing Company

Professional Genealogy is a manual by professionals for everyone serious about genealogy. For librarians who struggle to help a whole new class of patrons, it provides a bridge to the methods, sources, and minutiae of history, up-close and personal. For established genealogical professionals, it offers benchmarks by which they can advance their skills and place their businesses on sounder footing. For all those who dream of turning a fascinating hobby into a successful career, Professional Genealogy details the preparation and the processes

Professional Genealogy. a Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians

Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Resources

Genealogical Publishing Compan

Evidence Explained is the definitive guide to the analysis and citation of historical sources. It begins with a simple question: Why do we invest so much of our energy into the citation of sources? and the intriguing answer: Because all sources are not created equal. Evidence Explained is built on this simple question and answer. According to the author, there are no historical resources we can trust at face value. Records simply offer evidence, and their assertions may or may not be true. To decide what likely happened, we must understand those records. To analyze that evidence and judge what to believe, we also need particular facts about those records. Thus, Evidence Explained has two principal uses:<ul>
<li>It provides citation models for most historical sources--especially original materials not covered by classic citation guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style. </li>
<li>Its models, and supporting discussions, help us understand each type of record and identify the details we and our readers will need to know--not only to relocate the source when needed but also to understand the nature of that source so that its evidence can be better interpreted and the accuracy of our conclusions can be properly appraised. </li>
</ul>
Highlights: The revised second edition of Evidence Explained <ul>
<li>covers all contemporary and electronic sources not discussed in traditional style manuals, including digital, audio, and video sources. </li>
<li>Explains citation principals and includes more than 1,000 citation models for virtually every source type. </li>
<li>Teaches researchers where to find sources, how to describe them, and how to evaluate them </li>
<li>Guides users through the challenge of separating facts from assertions, and theory from proof, in the evaluation of evidence. </li>
<li>Covers source citations for every known class of records, including microfilm, microfiche, and records created by the new digital media such as audio files, blogs, CDs and DVDs, digital books and journals, podcasts, social media, and websites of all types.</li>
</ul>If you are a researcher, you need this book. Consult it during your research to guide you in capturing all the information you will need. Use it as a guide to identify source types and guide you to other related records. Use it to evaluate digital and Internet sources. Make it your standard for citing sources and evaluating evidence in your day-to-day research.

Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, 2nd Edition

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Genealogical Pub. Co

Ancestry.com is the largest and most widely used genealogy site on the Internet. As an Ancestry.com user yourself, you've looked at databases with billions of names, so now you want to be sure you can get back to a specific record or lead others to the same record; and you need to identify your sources, to verify and cross-check them for accuracy, using the correct citations to Ancestry's online databases and images. Help is at hand with Elizabeth Mills's fabulous QuickSheet, which provides rules and models for citing the myriad databases and images you use on Ancestry.com. With this new QuickSheet, you'll know instantly how to cite databases that include census records, vital records, passenger lists, city directories, and family trees; and how to cite images that include manuscripts, maps, newspapers, and online books and articles. First published in 2009, the Quicksheet has now been completely revised to reflect changes and new wrinkles at Ancestry.com. In QuickSheet: Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images you'll find the standards you need for the correct citation of Ancestry sources, as well as help in judging the reliability of those sources. For most Ancestry.com sources, sample citations are shown here in three styles: Source List Entry, Full Reference Note, and Short Reference Note, each showing you how to deal with author/creator, title, website, URL, date accessed, item type, source of sources, and so forth. Arranged in tabular format under each of these headings, the sample citations are easy to follow and can be applied to your specific needs in citing your sources. Convenient for desktop use at home or in the library, the new QuickSheet, like its companion, QuickSheet: Citing Online Historical Resources Evidence! Style, is a heavily laminated sheet, folded to form a standard 8.5" x 11" folder, and is designed for constant use.

Quicksheet Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images

DNA analysis is the new frontier in genealogical research. Combined with traditional research methods it is the gold standard in genealogy. Four types of DNA tests are commonly used in genetic testing: (1) Y-DNA; (2) MT-DNA; (3) AT-DNA; and (4) X-Line DNA. The successful use of these tests requires interpretation, but in conjunction with documentary research, indisputable genealogical evidence can easily be established.One of the purposes of this QuickSheet is to show how to cite sources in compiling a genealogy using DNA analysis. As Ms. Mills demonstrates, the standards for citation, evidence analysis, and proof --when using DNA tests for historical purposes--are the same as those for sound historical and genealogical research. This QuickSheet demonstrates how to report test results, analyses, and instructional matter in ways that support those standards.To begin with, she explains the basic citation formats, depending on whether you cite an online resource or an offline report. To make the job of citing sources simpler, she provides a template that shows exactly how you should identify source list entries and reference notes. Then she provides examples, or models, of common source types, showing how to use them in a source list entry, in a full reference note, and in a short reference note. On this complicated subject, nothing could be easier to use.Written by the doyen of source citation and evidence, this QuickSheet is quick to read, handy to use, and is certain to become the basic guide to citing genetic sources. Following the style of the famous QuickSheet series, it is published as a 4-page folder and is laminated to withstand heavy use.

QuickSheet: Citing Genetic Sources for History Research Evidence! Style

Eight years have passed since the first edition of Evidence Explained, the definitive guide to the citation and analysis of historical sources--a guide so thorough that it leaves nothing to chance. Yet advances in genealogy and history research, changes at major repositories and online information providers, and the ever-evolving electronic world have generated new citation and analysis challenges for researchers. While countless websites now suggest ways to identify their offerings, few of those address the analytical needs of a researcher concerned with the nature and provenance of web material, whose numerous incarnations and transformations often affect the reliability of their content. Like the previous editions of Evidence Explained, the third edition explains citation principles for both traditional and nontraditional sources; includes more than 1,000 citation models for virtually every source type; and shows readers where to go to find their sources and how to describe and evaluate them. It contains many new citation models, updates to websites, and descriptions and evaluations of numerous contemporary materials not included in earlier editions. Highlights of the third edition include:
<ul>
<li>QuickStart Guide</li>
 <li>Expanded 3x3 Evidence Analysis Process Model</li>
 <li>Expanded coverage for genetic citations</li>
 <li>Expanded coverage of layered citations</li>
</ul>
 Plus<ul>
<li>Latest concepts in evidence analysis</li> <li>Coverage of latest media and delivery systems</li> <li>Expanded glossary</li>
 <li>Handling of cached materials at Wayback Machine and elsewhere</li>
 <li>Privacy standards for genetic research</li>
 <li>Updates in National Archives citations after changes at NARA and TNG</li>
 <li>Updates for major online providers after acquisitions and mergers</li>
 <li>When to cite DOIs vs. URLs</li>
 <li>When to cite Stable URLs vs. paths and keywords</li>
 <li>Your 4 Basic Rules for citing websites</li>
 <li>&amp; many other issues raised by users of past editions</li>
</ul>

Evidence Explained

Genealogical Publishing Co.

This is an updated edition of the two-sided laminated QuickSheet by Elizabeth Mills that offers the bare-naked essentials of citing sources for everything from books and articles to manuscripts and websites. Showing how easy (and necessary) it is to cite your sources accurately, she provides a template that can be applied by anyone using almost any type of source material. In a single chart containing ten main entries, she actually creates a comprehensive--if bare-boned--guide to citing sources. On top of that she offers a unique form to fill out--a source-data collection form for use at point of contact with each source. For a quick overview of the methods of citing sources, this QuickSheet is indispensable and easily lives up to its famous name.

QuickSheet: Your Stripped-Bare Guide to Citing Sources

The second edition of this QuickSheet by Elizabeth Shown Mills provides a completely updated template for citing historical sources on the Internet. It also lays down rules to help you judge the reliability of these sources. Published in the form of a laminated folder, the QuickSheet contains a series of sample citations showing the correct way to identify online sources such as databases, census images, and digital books and articles. Based on the premise that online sources are publications that have the same characteristics as printed publications, it provides rules and models for common record types such as passenger lists, vital records, and newspapers. Since a website is the online equivalent of a book, the QuickSheet shows you how to cite author/creator/owner of a website, title of the website, place (URL), date posted, and so forth. Convenient for desktop use at home or in the library, the QuickSheet answers all those niggling questions left unanswered by the standard citation guides.

QuickSheet: Citing Online Historical Resources. Second Edition

Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.

DNA analysis is the new frontier in genealogical research. Combined with traditional research methods it is the gold standard in genealogy. Four types of DNA tests are commonly used in genetic testing: (1) Y-DNA; (2) MT-DNA; (3) AT-DNA; and (4) X-Line DNA. The successful use of these tests requires interpretation, but in conjunction with documentary research, indisputable genealogical evidence can easily be established. One of the purposes of this QuickSheet is to show how to cite sources in compiling a genealogy using DNA analysis. As Ms. Mills demonstrates, the standards for citation, evidence analysis, and proof--when using DNA tests for historical purposes are the same as those for sound historical and genealogical research. This QuickSheetdemonstrates how to report test results, analyses, and instructional matter in ways that support those standards. To begin with, she explains the basic citation formats, depending on whether you cite an online resource or an offline report. To make the job of citing sources simpler, she provides a template which shows exactly how you should identify source list entries and reference notes. Then she provides examples, or models, of common source types, showing how to use them in a source list entry, in a full reference note, and in a short reference note. On this complicated subject, nothing could be easier to use. Written by the doyen of source citation and evidence, this QuickSheet is quick to read, handy to use, and is certain to become the basic guide to citing genetic sources. Following the style of the famous QuickSheet series, it is published as a 4-page folder and is laminated to withstand heavy use.

Citing Genetic Sources for History Research Evidence! Style. Second Edition

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