Citations
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Citation Templates
Remember Mad Libs? Teachers liked them because they were a fun way to review the parts of speech, and kids liked them because they could try to be as vulgar as possible and make their friends laugh. The (noun) went to (place). The (noun) was (adjective). Citations are a lot like Mad Libs, just not…
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Waypoints and Other Layering Issues
In my last post I talked about citation basics. I had more to say but it was already getting to be a long post so I’m going to put the rest here. The first thing I want to talk about is waypoints. Back in the day, URLs were not stable. Here today, gone tomorrow. Incidentally,…
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Citation Basics
I talked about why citations are important in this blog post. Today I’m going to talk about citation basics, to make it easier to understand how the components of a citation fit together. Let’s start with the very basic of basic citations: a book. Tom Jones, Mastering Genealogical Documentation (Arlington, Virginia : National Genealogical Society,…
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