| Author | Jones, Thomas W., Ph.D., author.
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| Title | Mastering genealogical documentation / Thomas W. Jones.
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| Published | Arlington, VA : National Genealogical Society, [2017]
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| Description | xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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| Series | National Genealogical Society special topics series
NGS special publication ; no. 122
Special publications of the National Genealogical Society ; no. 122.
Special topics series (National Genealogical Society)
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| ISBN | 9781935815242 |
| ISBN | 1935815245 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Chapter 1. The purpose and nature of genealogical documentation -- Chapter 2. Noncitation aspects of genealogical documentation -- Chapter 3. Citation settings, forms, and shortcuts -- Chapter 4. Assembling components into clear citations -- Chapter 5. Capitalization, italics, punctuation, and other citation subtleties -- Chapter 6. Determining a source's publication status -- Chapter 7. Issues in citing source titles, descriptions, or both -- Chapter 8. Authors, creators, and informants -- Chapter 9. Citing absent, hidden, obvious, and perplexing dates for sources, information, and events -- Chapter 10. Citing numbered, grouped, and subgrouped offline sources and information items -- Chapter 11. Answering the wherein and whereis citation questions for online sources -- Chapter 12. Identifying offline publishers and repositories -- Citing original online content -- Chapter 14. Citing images of previously published material -- Chapter 15. Citing online images of previously unpublished material -- Chapter 16. Multipart options for citing images -- Chapter 17. Documenting on your own.
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| Summary Note | Summary: This textbook teaches the principles of genealogical documentation. There are exercises at the end of each chapter with answers at the back of the book.
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| Subjects | Bibliographical citations.
Bibliographical citations.
Genealogy.
Genealogy.
Textbooks.
Textbooks.
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| Electronic Res. | http://www.ngsgenealogy.com |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: CS 14 J762 2017
CA-1902747: LC class, open stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 65802] |
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