{"id":17314,"date":"2023-11-16T14:21:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17314"},"modified":"2023-11-16T14:21:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T20:21:27","slug":"citing-what-is-in-your-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/16\/citing-what-is-in-your-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing What Is In Your Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Never cite a source unless it was actually in your sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>If you saw a tombstone\u2019s picture on&nbsp;<em>FindAGrave,&nbsp;<\/em>cite that website\u2013do not indicate you were in the cemetery yourself or took the picture yourself.<\/li><li>If you saw a transcription of a will in a published book, cite the book and that&nbsp;book\u2019s transcription\u2013do not cite the will itself.<\/li><li>If your Mother told you something about her mother, cite your mother&nbsp;as the source-do not cite Grandma as you didn\u2019t hear Grandma actually say that something.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether the source is accurate is another story. We just want our citations to accurately reflect what used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn everything you ever wanted to know about citations, see&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1H8sTPT\">Evidence Explained<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never cite a source unless it was actually in your sight. It\u2019s simple: If you saw a tombstone\u2019s picture on&nbsp;FindAGrave,&nbsp;cite that website\u2013do not indicate you were in the cemetery yourself or took the picture yourself. If you saw a transcription of a will in a published book, cite the book and that&nbsp;book\u2019s transcription\u2013do not cite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}