Citations

9 July 2014 It's a simple concept: Citations, like a lot of professions, have distinctive "uniforms." So dress 'em right! The police wear uniforms that identify them as law enforcement. Doctors and nurses wear uniforms that identify them as medical personnel. If we need a police officer, we don't look for somebody in a scrub suit, do we? Citations are also 'dressed' certain ways to identify what they are ...

25 June 2014 EE hopes your answer is "no." Today’s image demonstrates why. Not only do we need to double-check the factual details, but we also need to consider whether the “ready-made citation” actually covers all essentials. The census enumeration maps offered by one of our most-valued providers of digitized records suggests ...

16 June 2014 A while back, a new EE user posed a question we’ll paraphrase here: ‘I’m writing a biography of a nineteenth-century man. For his birth and immigration, every record has a different year. Do I combine all my sources into just one citation for each event? This would make a ridiculously long and unwieldy citation.’

24 April 2014 What are the two unbreakable rules for citing vital records--and why do they matter?

13 April 2014 The citation police are notorious. They thrive on blogs like QuickTips and use its content to predict perdition for all poor souls who violate wee tenets of EE or CMOS or MLA. Or so we hear. Frequently. Perhaps today's commandments will come in handy sometime, when you are cornered by citation zealots who have forgotten their own past transgressions. ...

10 April 2014 Citations to original records held in courthouses and town halls may vary from one to the next, depending upon the nature of the record and the focus of your own work. For example: ...

3 April 2014 Ah, the confusion that exists over these two concepts! Does it matter? Are the distinctions between them essential or just more of the clap-trap that make so many people cringe at the word "citations"? ...

24 February 2014
Salt Lake City's Family History Library holds a rich trove of microfilmed records from around the world. Identifying that material clearly, in a way that will avoid confusion when it is needed again, can be a challenge. Each roll of film ...

22 February 2014 When we receive a photocopy of a document or page from a record book—whether it’s from an official or unofficial source—our citation needs to . . .