Layered citations

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:

EE Mon, 11/05/2018 - 19:22
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