I am wondering how to cite a hard copy of a will I obtained from the Borthwick Archive. This is not a hard copy from a film from a copy in a book ( I am dating myself as this was before digital copies were made for research purposes) as you might assume. I originally sent for and recived a copy of this will (18 pages long) from the Borthwick. It was was totally unreadable. I complained.
Disappearing Websites: How Do We Cite Them?
Gary Gauthier raises a question every researcher faces again and again. We paraphrase here for brevity: "What do we do when we have already constructed a correctly formatted citation and the site provider disappears—i.e., sells, merges, or goes out of business? ..."
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Mon, 12/10/2018 - 17:29
Does Sourcing Really Take That Much Time?
Someone, in another forum, asked how to cite a source. Someone else asked “Why?” as in Why bother? In their opinion, “Sourcing takes too much time!”
Does it really?
The inquirer had found something of interest in a back issue of Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, for which Ancestry offers images within a database. She helpfully included a link.
As always in such cases, we have 2 things to cite:
Prefabrication is a wonderful concept. Like most concepts, it has its uses—as well as undesirable consequences. In a recent thread on EE's Facebook page, a commenter writes: “It’s best to go with the citation any site recommends at [as] it will most likely lead to continuous access no matter how the site changes over time.” For the record ...
Citing Online Sources: Ken & Barbie? Or a Set of Nested Russian Dolls?
A query in another forum raises a puzzler to ponder: Is a nested citation the same thing as a layered citation? Or is there a difference? Yep. It’s the difference between ...
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Mon, 07/17/2017 - 09:12
In another forum that will go unnamed, a writer declared: “I like MLA better than CMOS because MLA doesn’t require us to cite page numbers.” ... Whoa! Back up a moment. Somebody took a wrong turn here. ...
Reader pbaum has raised an issue often faced by those who comb history's nooks and crannies: Say I have 10 or more land entries mentioned in the main text, but ....
The Disciplined Researcher's 20-Question Guide
What is your success rate as a researcher? Does every effort advance your goals or bring you closer to resolving a specific research problem? Do you invest hours that generate no relevant information at all? Do record sets and databases never seem to yield the needed answers to your key questions about events and identities, associations, and relations? Or have you amassed great quantities of data that remind you of the Shakespearean line about “much sound and fury, signifying nothing”? ...
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Tue, 09/08/2015 - 09:31
Citations, Rigmarole & Aha! Moments
In the grand scheme of things, what matters in a source citation? In another forum recently, a researcher shared a bit of frustration. To paraphrase, with a bit of elaboration: ...
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Mon, 08/17/2015 - 08:27
12 February 2015
We hear this question often. It's usually accompanied by a reference to "scientific style" citations that the questioner considers to be "clean and concise," or to a publisher's house style that strips citations down to ...
