Numbering Your Genealogy: Basic Systems, Complex Families, and International Kin

By: Curran, Coen, and Wray, updated and edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $15.00

Publisher: National Genalogical Society:

Seller ID: NGS-Numbering

Condition: 2008, paper

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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

QuickSheet: Citing Online African-American Historical Resources Evidence! Style

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company:

Seller ID: 102-3863

ISBN: 0806318716

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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 footnotes and endnotes, adds specific details about particular information within the source. With this basic template, the ... View more info

Natchitoches Church Marriages, 1818-1850: Translated Abstracts from the Registers of St. Francios des Natchitoches Louisiana

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc: (1985)

Seller ID: M0924

ISBN: 1585499242

Condition: 216 pages, 6x9, (1985), 2003, 6x9, paper, index, 216 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc

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Entries include bride and parents, groom and parents, date of ceremony, witnesses present, and ethnicity of spouses.216 pages, 6x9, (1985), 2003, 6x9, paper, index, 216 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc View more info

Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, 3rd edition, revised

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $59.95

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company:

Seller ID: 3843-102

ISBN: 0806320400

Condition: Hardcover, 885 pages, 2017, hardback, Genealogical Publishing Company

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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—especially original materials not covered by classic citation guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style. Beyond that it can help ... View more info

Evidence!

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $19.95

Publisher: GPC: (1997)

Seller ID: 3846-102

ISBN: 0806315431

Condition: 124 pages, 6x9, (1997), 2011, 124 pp., index, cloth, 6x9”, Cloth, GPC

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124 pages, 6x9, (1997), 2011, 124 pp., index, cloth, 6x9”, Cloth, GPC View more info

Isle of Canes

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $27.95

Publisher: Ancestry Publishing:

Seller ID: 313067

ISBN: 1593313063

Condition: Ancestry Publishing

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Natchitoches 1729-1803: Abstracts

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc: (1977)

Seller ID: M0010

ISBN: 931069106

Condition: 520 pages, 6x9, (1977), 2007, 6x9, paper, index, 520 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc

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Abstracts of the Catholic Church Registers of the French and Spanish Post of St. Jean Baptiste des Natchitoches in Louisiana: 1729-1803520 pages, 6x9, (1977), 2007, 6x9, paper, index, 520 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc View more info

Natchitoches: Translated Abstracts of Register Number Five of the Catholic Church Parish of St. Francois des Natchitoches in Louisiana: 1800-1826

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $41.00

Publisher: Heritage Books, Inc: (1980)

Seller ID: M0925

ISBN: 1585499250

Condition: 498 pages, 6x9, (1980), 2007, 6x9, paper, index, 498 pp, Softcover, Heritage Books, Inc

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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 them. Natchitoches, for the most part, lay within the disputed territory; and more than once, along this frontier, the cold war ... View more info

QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer’s Guide to Cluster Research (the FAN Principle)

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $9.95

Seller ID: 102-3868

ISBN: 0806318945

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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 identity, parentage, and origin, several questions must be asked: Who are the known members of the FAN club? What did they do toge... View more info

QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer’s Guide to Individual Problem Analysis

By: Elizabeth Shown Mills

Price: $8.95

Seller ID: 102-3870

ISBN: 0806318953

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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. In addition to the 10 steps, this QuickSheet contains a "Life Stages Worksheet"--a form to be filled in covering... View more info