Do you have research from your “early days” that needs to be reviewed? Often the worst part of that task is getting citations for those things you copied, wrote down, or scribbled on pieces of paper that would dwarf a postage stamp.
Your citation does not have to be perfect. Commas and semicolons can be in the wrong place. The world will not end. But going back and reviewing where you “got that stuff” when you were first researching may help you more than you think.
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Oh, I hadn’t looked up the word citation as to what it mean. Good idea, now that I know it’s easier to do. Whenever I get something I know where it came from.Others not so much. Ur information is always helpful. Thank u.
Does “Iowa is right.
Aunt Martha”
indicate that your Aunt Martha saw this info and was letting you know that “Iowa 1920 census” was indeed the right information as she knew it personally? Could be. (And, of course, may not be the way of it at all.
The image was one that was “self-made” for the post 😉 But your comment makes a good point: sketchy notes like this often go cold within a few days. And sometimes trying to decipher what we meant years later is just about impossible.