Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace

by Elizabeth Shown Mills

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806317817
• ISBN13: 9780806317816
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
• Length: 885 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resource & Reference Book

"Evidence Explained" by Elizabeth Shown Mills is by far the most comprehensive resource I have seen for accurately and effectively citing historical sources. The book is well organized and the author provides excellent citation examples for just about every source imaginable. Whether you are a novice or experienced researcher, I would highly recommend this book.

The most comprehensive source citation guide I've ever seen

Evidence Explained is the answer to a genealogist's quest for citation guidelines. With the ever-expanding Internet databases and records collections, it is becoming more and more important for serious genealogists to understand how to properly cite these sources. Evidence Explained is the guide everyone should own. Not only does it provide detailed guidance and templates for practically any source you might encounter, it presents a comprehensive text covering the theory behind citations. Evidence Explained covers far more than Internet sources, it includes use of obscure and unusual sources encountered by genealogists. I highly recommend this book to any genealogist concerned about properly citing sources.

Evidence or Evidence Explained

I was given the option to buy Evidence or Evidence Explained for a class I was taking. To save costs, I started with Evidence, because it was much cheaper. As the weeks turned into months, I found it lacking in citation examples I needed. I was constantly asking for help and having to wait for an answer. I finally went ahead and bought Evidence Explained and when I got it was instantly satisfied. There are examples of everything I needed for my research, including every situation I ran into. I only wish I would have bought it first. It has saved me hours of research just to make a proper citation. It is easy to locate examples for all your needs.

genresearcher82

Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace This book is certainly the best source currently available to guide the genealogy researcher in documenting sources. I have been faithfully using the author's EVIDENCE! CITATION AND ANALYSIS FOR THE FAMILY HISTORIAN and QUICKSHEET CITING ONLINE HISTORICAL RESOURCES. I was surprised to see this latest and most complete publication so soon. I have found this latest publication of tremendous assistance in documenting county court records, all forms of online records, etc. If this latest book does not cover the precise source you are attempting to document, there are so many closely related sources covered that it greatly simplifies creating your own citation to meet almost all unique forms you encounter.

Both genealogical collections and college-level libraries strong in either library science or resear

Elizabeth Mills is a historical writer with decades of research experience in public and private records, so her EVIDENCE EXPLAINED: CITING HISTORY SOURCES FROM ARTIFACTS TO CYBERSPACE discusses the various forms taken by old records, how they are translated into modern technological realms from websites to DVDs, and how they are stored and accessed. While such records and source materials offer evidence of a type - they may not be true: researchers thus need to 'consider the source' of the digital information they are relying upon, and EVIDENCE EXPLAINS offers an in-depth survey of these details and methods for evaluating record credibility and the sources of evidence conflicts. Both genealogical collections and college-level libraries strong in either library science or research need this survey. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch