Evidence Explained 4th Edition – Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace

Evidence Explained 4th Edition: The highly anticipated new version of the “bible of source citations” for genealogical research – Evidence Explained – is now available! Whether you are searching your family history in-person at archives, libraries, and repositories OR on-line at any of the genealogy platforms like Ancestry or MyHeritage – this book is a MUST HAVE! Click HERE or on the image below to get your copy TODAY!

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• Mirrors the print book, page for page

• Complements the print book – like having an every word index

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Evidence Explained 4th Edition – About

For today’s family historians, records abound. In courthouses and warehouses, town halls and rectories, archives and attics, we find old records in every form imaginable. Technology also delivers documents and relics through many digital formats. Audio files, podcasts, and YouTube stream insight into past lives. Libraries offer film and fiche, reprints, and revisions, translations and transcripts, alongside digital access to books and journals published previously in print.

However, all records are not created equal, and history is not just a collection of “facts.” Critical analysis is essential, and since 2007 Evidence Explained has been the definitive, go-to guide for those who explore history and seek help with understanding, analyzing, and citing the materials they use. Evidence Explained has two principal uses: it provides citation models for historical sources—especially materials not covered in standard citation guides such as The Chicago Manual of Style. Beyond that, it enables researchers to understand the nature of each source so that evidence they cite can be better interpreted and the accuracy of their conclusions properly appraised.

In the six years since the last edition was published, changes at major repositories and online information providers–as well as the ever-evolving electronic world–have generated new citation and analysis challenges for researchers. As a consequence, Mrs. Mills has once again updated her citation models and added descriptions and evaluations of numerous contemporary materials not included in the Third Edition Revised.

Evidence Explained 4th Edition – Highlights

Evidence Explained’s new fourth edition significantly reexamines historical resources and simplifies long-standing practices.

• Updated Chapters One and Two (“Fundamentals of Analysis” and “Fundamentals of Citation”), continue to lay the foundations for successful research.

• An entirely new Chapter Three, “Building a Citation,” provides a tutorial for the construction of citations. Here, you learn to work with seven basic building blocks that can be mixed and matched to create a citation for any kind of source.

• Chapter Three’s 14 streamlined templates replace the previous 170 QuickChek Models, assembling the basic building blocks as needed to create citations for every type of material—whether accessed as an unpublished manuscript, print publication, database, or online image delivered at a specific URL or through a complex path and its waypoints.

• All examples in the twelve “Records” chapters (Chapters Four through Fifteen) are keyed to the specific templates that work best for each source or situation.

• Hundreds of new citation examples emphasize modern modes of access, particularly the layered citations that modern media require.

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