{"id":5153,"date":"2016-07-27T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T16:08:17","slug":"what-you-cite-should-be-in-your-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/27\/what-you-cite-should-be-in-your-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Cite Should Be In Your Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never cite a source unless it was actually in your sight.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you saw a tombstone&#8217;s picture on\u00a0<em>FindAGrave,\u00a0<\/em>cite that website&#8211;do not indicate you were in the cemetery yourself or took the picture yourself.<\/li>\n<li>If you saw a transcription of a will in a published book, cite the book and that\u00a0book&#8217;s transcription&#8211;do not cite the will itself.<\/li>\n<li>If your Mother told you something about her mother, cite your mother\u00a0as the source-do not cite Grandma as you didn&#8217;t hear Grandma actually say that something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whether the source is accurate is another story. We just want our citations to accurately reflect what used.<\/p>\n<p>To learn everything you ever wanted to know about citations, see\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1H8sTPT\">Evidence Explained<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never cite a source unless it was actually in your sight. It&#8217;s simple: If you saw a tombstone&#8217;s picture on\u00a0FindAGrave,\u00a0cite that website&#8211;do 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If you saw a transcription of a will in a published book, cite the book and that\u00a0book&#8217;s transcription&#8211;do not cite [&hellip;]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-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153","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=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}