Special topics series (National Genealogical Society) #122

Special publications of the National Genealogical Society #122

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 Citing online images of previously unpublished material -- Chapter 16.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

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