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By: Curran, Coen, and Wray, updated and edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills
Price: $15.00
Publisher: National Genalogical Society:
Seller ID: NGS-Numbering
This favorite clearly defines numbering methods and differences between the NGSQ and Register systems. Content also covers non-traditional families, including adoptions and step-relatives, and describes how to number immigrant ancestors in a family history. 1999 rev 2008, softbound, 36 pages View more info
Price: $9.95
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company:
Seller ID: 102-3863
Basic citation models given here help researchers evaluate the reliability of online historical sources by recording all relevant information about both the historical material itself and the website that provides the material. In citing online historical sources Mrs. Mills offers two basic style formats: **Source-list style, used in bibliographies, gives a short and general identification of a source. **Reference-note style, used for footnote... View more info
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Seller ID: 102-3867
Building on a lifetime of experience, Elizabeth Mills argues that successful research can be achieved by following four specific models: **The Research Process Model **The Research Analysis Model **The Identity Triangulation Model **The Reliability Model The first of these, the research process model, involves several indispensable steps: analyze the problem, place it in legal and social context, identify related and associated individuals, iden... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: M0924
Entries include bride and parents, groom and parents, date of ceremony, witnesses present, and ethnicity of spouses. View more info
Price: $59.95
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company:
Edition: 2
Seller ID: 3843-102
NEW 3rd EDITION!!!According to the author, there are no historical resources we can trust at face value. Records simply offer evidence, and their assertions may or may not be true. To decide what actually happened, we must understand those records. To analyze that evidence and judge what to believe, we also need particular facts about those records.Thus, Evidence Explained has two principal uses: it provides citation models for most historical sources—espec... View more info
Price: $3.95
Publisher: Board of Certified Genealogists: 2006
Seller ID: QS-EvidAna
Price: $9.95
Seller ID: 102-3869
The premise of this QuickSheet is that while databases and indexes are valuable tools for research, they can actually impede the research process. We all know that databases and indexes can shortcut the process of discovery, and many search engines offer wildcard and Boolean options, as well as phonetic indexing systems to help researchers contend with clerical carelessness and data-entry errors. But historical records involve vagaries that defy technical formulas. Datab... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc:
Seller ID: M0010
Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana: 1729-1803 View more info
Price: $41.00
Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc:
Seller ID: M0925
The first quarter of the nineteenth century was, assuredly, the most turbulent era in the history of Natchitoches. Within the first three years of that century, the Louisiana colony passed from Spanish to French to American control; but the frontier that Natchitoches embraced was doomed to suffer from political instability for decades to come as the new American regime fought a diplomatic battle with neighboring Spanish Texas over the boundary that should lie between the... View more info
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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company: 2012
Seller ID: 3859-102
Ancestry.com is the largest and most widely used genealogy site on the Internet. As an Ancestry.com user yourself, you’ve looked at databases with billions of names, so now you want to be sure you can get back to a specific record or lead others to the same record; and you need to identify your sources, to verify and cross-check them for accuracy, using the correct citations to Ancestry’s online databases and images.Help is at hand with Elizabeth Mills’s ... View more info
Price: $8.95
Seller ID: 102-3849
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... View more info
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Seller ID: 102-3868
Introduces the concept of “Cluster Research” based on the FAN principle, the idea being that to prove identity, origin, and parentage individuals must be studied in the context of their FAN club--family, associates, and neighbors. Historical information, she says, is like real estate: the true value of any piece of information is unknown until it is put into community context. To apply the FAN principle in order to establish a set of facts concerning ident... View more info
Price: $7.95
Seller ID: 102-3870
Offering a 10-step solution to genealogical problems, this QuickSheet will help you leap the proverbial brick wall and save you hours of frustration. The outgrowth of a lifetime of professional experience, the 10 steps provide a systematic basis for problem solving unique to genealogy. When faced with an elusive person or missing or contradictory information, these steps will be your lifeline, helping you to resolve tricky problems related to sources, evidence, and proof... View more info
By: Elizabeth Shown Mills & Gary B. Mills
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Heritage Books:
Seller ID: M0002
This is the poignant story of the “unsung heroes” of this frontier: the humble soldier and slave, hunter and farmer, priest and peasant--and the rare noblesse--who lived and loved and warred along the winding banks of the fabled Red River. View more info
By: Elizabeth Shown Mills, editor
Price: $59.95
Publisher: 2001
Seller ID: 3844-102
Professional Genealogy is a manual by professionals for everyone serious about genealogy. For family historians who want to do their own study, reliably, it describes the standards. For hobbyists, attorneys, and medical scientists who seek professional researchers, it's a consumer guide that defines quality and facilitates choices. For librarians who struggle to help a whole new class of patrons, it provides a bridge to the methods, sources, and minutiae of "history, up-... View more info
