Category Archives: Sources & Citations Series

Q & A – Citations and Repositories

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Julie Goucher

Hi Julie, I enjoyed the online Chat and just read the evening one so have ordered the book mentioned. I’ve managed to get RootsMagic to work on my Mac – I don’t think it will link to anything online but. … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – Your Own Citation, Guidance for Others

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Julie Goucher

We are at the last of the Sources and Citations Series and I hope that you have found it useful and it has given you food for thought on your studies. Whether you have a blog or website for your research … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – Approaches to Writing Sources

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Julie Goucher

Continuing with the Sources and Citations Series. Whilst we all hope that we will record absolutely perfect citations we have to accept that there will be days when we do not. These will occur because there are a million things whizzing … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – Genealogical Proof Standard & One-Name Studies

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Julie Goucher

Sometime ago I promised to write a post about Genealogical Proof Standard. I cannot recall, if I indeed did write the post or if I added it to my never-ending to do list, but thought that I would write this … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – Repository Lists

Posted on February 17, 2019 by Julie Goucher

Continuing with the Sources and Citations Series and today we are going to focus on Repository Lists. Being a prolific note taker and list maker I am in my element with a list of repositories being an important part of my genealogy … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – Are Sources Ever Wrong?

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Julie Goucher

Continuing with the Sources and Citations Series. Early on in the series we talked about sources, what they are the differences between primary and secondary sources; you an read that earlier post here. Primary Source is something written at the time, by someone … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – References & Guidance for Citations

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Julie Goucher

The first book I wholeheartedly recommend is Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills. The author has created a comprehensive website which offers many examples and explanations for citations for a variety of source material. The second book that I recommend … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – What is the Point of Recording Citations?

Posted on February 14, 2019 by Julie Goucher

Continuing with the Sources and Citations Series. We talked yesterday about what a citation is and you can read that post here. Today we are going to look at the point of recording of citations, and I did touch on … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – What is a Citation?

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Julie Goucher

As I said earlier in this series, in this post, In short, think of a source and citation as a journey and destination. The destination is the source, whereas the citation is how you got there and how you and … Continue reading →

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Sources & Citations Series – What is a Source?

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Julie Goucher

There are two types of sources: Primary Sources Secondary Sources A Primary Source is something written at the time, by someone who had first hand knowledge of an event. For example, the diaries of Samuel Pepys. In his diary, he … Continue reading →

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