I am in the process of putting into the correct format all
the citations I used in developing the Hardenbrook family monograph. Although a tedious process, it is one
that is well worth the effort. I am finding additional information on family
members as well as documentation mistakes.
If I had known then
what I know now…I would have saved a
lot of time. One issue I came
across this weekend is correctly citing newspaper articles. According to Elizabeth Shown Mills in Evidence Explained, Second Edition, in
citing newspaper articles, put the name of the person in quotation marks at the
start of the citation, then state whether it is an obituary, society note,
etc., then the publication, date of publication, page, and column number. When originally citing the articles I
didn’t think to include the page and column numbers.
Sometimes the person you are searching is not found. So you try searching other family
members. Maybe you came across
Mary Jones’ maiden name information in an obituary for her husband, John
Jones. The citation would be
helpful to other researchers if the citation on Mary’s maiden name was labeled
not “Mary Jones,” but “John Jones,” obituary, etc. And that is where I made a misstep. If I had labeled the
citation correctly, I wouldn’t be spending time searching “Mary Jones,” and
getting no hits.
I just received an email from Amazon asking if I wanted to
sell back my copy of Evidence Explained. Are they nuts??? I keep it close at hand and use it
almost every day. So, no thank
you, Amazon. I am quite happy with my purchase.
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