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Mastering genealogical documentation / Thomas W. Jones.

Jones, Thomas W., (author.).

Summary:

This textbook teaches the principles of genealogical documentation. There are exercises at the end of each chapter with answers at the back of the book.

Record details

ISBN: 9781935815242
ISBN: 1935815245
Physical Description: xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Publisher: Arlington, VA : National Genealogical Society, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1. The purpose and nature of genealogical documentation -- Chapter 2. Noncitation aspects of genealogical documentation -- Chapter 3. Citation settings, forms, and shortcuts -- Chapter 4. Assembling components into clear citations -- Chapter 5. Capitalization, italics, punctuation, and other citation subtleties -- Chapter 6. Determining a source's publication status -- Chapter 7. Issues in citing source titles, descriptions, or both -- Chapter 8. Authors, creators, and informants -- Chapter 9. Citing absent, hidden, obvious, and perplexing dates for sources, information, and events -- Chapter 10. Citing numbered, grouped, and subgrouped offline sources and information items -- Chapter 11. Answering the wherein and whereis citation questions for online sources -- Chapter 12. Identifying offline publishers and repositories -- Citing original online content -- Chapter 14. Citing images of previously published material -- Chapter 15. Citing online images of previously unpublished material -- Chapter 16. Multipart options for citing images -- Chapter 17. Documenting on your own.