An excellent book for citation for genealogists is:
Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian by Elizabeth Shown
Mills,
Grady McWhiney, Ph.D., Lyndon Baines Johnson Professor Emeritus, Texas
Christian University and Distinguished Visiting Professor of History,
McMurry University says:
"Not just every genealogist, but every historian as well, should own a copy.
Evidence! is filled with useful information that is difficult to find
elsewhere"
One of the many types of citations that is included are electronic. There
are different citation types for email messages, electronic databases,
images from private files, images from public archives, listserve messages,
web sites, electronically published papers (there were previously published
in hard copy).
C.
Craig R. Scott, CGRS
Willow Bend Books
65 East Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157-5026
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike and Annette Poston" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Documentation
> : Re: Documentation
>
> Jon [log in to unmask] wrote regarding documentation:
>
> > Second, and this is related to listing the URL, I have found that all
too
> > often the page that I sited less than six months ago is GONE
>
> I agree with Jon that as complete a citation as possible should be
recorded
> used in your documentation of source materials. But because the internet
> listings are ephemeral, it is wise to list the date at which you read or
> downloaded the material. It doesn't let the reader know where to find the
> material in question, but it does make it clear when you were able to find
> it on the internet.
>
> Whereas an internet document may be anonymous (as to author), the website
on
> which it was found may not be. Recording as much of the identification
> regarding the website may give a clue as to the materials provenance.
>
> Mike Poston
> Rockville, Maryland
>
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