Writing up your research is always advised, even if only for yourself. It can strengthen your conclusions and help you see gaps. Creating citations (even if they are not perfect and aren’t 
punctuated “correctly”) gets you thinking about how the record you used was created and how it was accessed.
My how-to newsletter Casefile Clues contains written up analysis of individual records and families. It’s probably more than a person typically needs to do for each record, but the goal is to get readers thinking about each document they acquire, what it means, what it doesn’t, where to go next, etc.
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