Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Resources [Pamphlet]

Elizabeth Shown Mills (Author)

Product Details

• Pamphlet: 4 pages
• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company; 1 Revised edition (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806317760
• ISBN-13: 978-0806317762
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,969 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Elizabeth Shown Mills is an internationally acclaimed historical researcher and writer who has spent her life studying American culture and the relationships between people--emotional as well as genetic. Featured on BBC, CNN, PBS, and other networks in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, she has been widely cited as "the genealogist who has had the most influence in the post-Roots era."

Her 13 prize-winning books range from reference works such as "Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace" (Library Journal 2007 Best Reference) to the historical novel, "Isle of Canes," which chronicles a family of freed slaves across four generations, and is drawn from Mills's own research in the archives of six nations.

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86 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Definite Must Have!, May 22, 2007

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Beth Ellis Bow (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Resources (Pamphlet)

Any genealogist worth his or her own salt must have this useful reference tool. In this day and age of electronic genealogy it is growing more and more important to fully document your sources found online. They can be here today and gone tomorrow. This easy to follow guide takes the guess work out of documentation. It lays a firm foundation with its basic principles and has models for common record types such as census images, census indexes & databases, digital articles & books, historical records, land-entry records, newspaper & newspaper items, passenger lists, social security death index and vital records. It gives examples of three different entry types--source list entry, full reference note, and short reference note. It is four pages long and comes laminated for long lasting use. This is something you definitely should keep at your fingertips!

61 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Publisher's Note for the 2007 edition by Clearfield Publishing:, July 25, 2007

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This review is from: Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Resources (Pamphlet)

First Revised Edition with updated sample citations and style changes.

Elizabeth Mills's QuickSheet provides a template for citing historical sources on the Internet. It also lays down rules to help you judge the reliability of these sources.

Published in the form of a laminated folder, the QuickSheet contains a series of sample citations showing the correct way to identify online sources such as databases, census images, and digital books and articles.

Based on the premise that online sources are publications that have the same characteristics as printed publications, it provides rules and models for common record types such as passenger lists, vital records, and newspapers. Since a website is the online equivalent of a book, the QuickSheet shows you how to cite author/creator/owner of a website, title of the website, place (URL), date posted, and so forth.

Convenient for desktop use at home or in the library, the QuickSheet answers all those niggling questions left unanswered by the standard citation guides; it is also a perfect companion to the classic citation manual Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian and Mills's 885-page definitive guide to the citation and analysis of historical sources, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace.

48 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Every Genealogist Should Have This on Their Desk, February 10, 2006

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Nancy Burns (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Sources (Pamphlet)

This nifty laminated "Quicksheet" is packed with citation examples for a wide variety of Internet genealogy sources. If you research on the Internet, this handy guide is a must-have!