{"id":2196,"date":"2011-01-01T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/01\/citing-the-source"},"modified":"2011-01-01T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T15:35:00","slug":"citing-the-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/01\/citing-the-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing the Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogy software programs can help genealogists cite their source. Whole books, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0806318066?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=caseclue-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0806318066\">Evidence Explained<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=caseclue-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0806318066\" width=\"1\" \/>,\u00a0have been written providing guidelines\u00a0for tracking where information was located. Remember that if nothing else, a citation should provide enough detail to get you back to the page in a book or piece of paper that provided you some information. If it doesn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s probably not adqeuate. <\/p>\n<p>A relative said, &#8220;a newspaper in 1909 mentioned&#8221; a certain relative. At the very least, the name of the paper, date of publication, and whether it was the print, microfilm, or digital version would have been helpful. It&#8217;s not always necessary to be 100% in the form of your citation, but it should allow someone else to re-find what you found&#8211;even if that &#8220;someone else&#8221; is you. After all, once in a while we need to review things for an additional viewing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/1504GT\">Check out GenealogyBank&#8217;s Offer for Tip of the Day Fans!<\/A><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genealogy software programs can help genealogists cite their source. Whole books, such as Evidence Explained,\u00a0have been written providing guidelines\u00a0for tracking where information was located. Remember that if nothing else, a citation should provide enough detail to get you back to the page in a book or piece of paper that provided you some information. If [&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-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","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=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}