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A Note about Sources

Descriptions, opinions and helpful insight into source documentation, primary evidence and more, from the personal web site of Marty Grant.

Ancestry Academy - Getting Started Right: Documentation for New Genealogists

By Thomas Jones.

BCG Skillbuilding: Citing Your Sources

Board for Certification of Genealogists - Standards for Documenting

Citations - Funeral Home Records - St. Louis Genealogical Society

Citation template.

Cite-builder.com - The Citation Builder For Genealogists

Site to generate source citations for genealogists. Select the source type, fill in the form with the necessary information, select the desired style, then cut and paste the results. Free and Premium versions available.

Evidence Explained

Historical Analysis, Citation & Source Usage. By Elizabeth Shown Mills.

Evidence Explained (Facebook)

By Elizabeth Shown Mills.

Family Locket - Effectively Adding a Source to your Ancestry Tree

FamilySearch Wiki - Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)

FamilySearch Wiki - Citing Online Sources

FamilySearch Wiki - How to Create Source Citations for the FamilySearch Family Tree

Genealogists' Guide to Documentation and Citing Sources

A free eBook from Unpuzzling Your Past by Emily Anne Croom.

Genealogy - Cite Your Sources (Facebook)

Genealogy Citation Builder

Spend more time discovering your family history and less time formatting citations. Quickly generate correctly formatted genealogy citations. Easily save, copy and edit previous citations.

Genealogy Standards Second Edition

A book for sale from Amazon.com. Family historians depend upon thousands of people unknown to them. They exchange research with others; copy information from books and databases; and write libraries, societies, and government offices. At times they even hire professionals to do legwork in distant areas and trust strangers to solve important problems. But how can a researcher be assured that he or she is producing or receiving reliable results? This official manual from the Board of Certification for Genealogists provides a standard by which all genealogists can pattern their work.

Genealogy.com - How To Cite Sources

Article by John Wylie.

Genealogy.com - Why Bother? The Value of Documentation in Family History Research

By Kory Meyerink, MLS, AG.

Guidelines for Sound Genealogical Research

Recommended by the National Genealogical Society.

Guidelines for Use of Computer Technology in Genealogical Research

Recommended by the National Genealogical Society.