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Elizabeth Shown Mills “Strips Bare” Master source citations and the Genealogical Proof Standard with Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Your Stripped Bare Guide to Citing & Using History Sources. Save 25% Feb 18–22 only!

Strip Down Your Citations: Save 25% on Elizabeth Shown Mills’ Ultimate Guide Strip Down Your Citations: Mardi Gras season is here—and in genealogy, that means it’s time to take the masks off your sources. If your citations feel more mysterious than a masked parade-goer on Bourbon Street, you’re not alone. Many family historians collect great…

The Naked Truth About Citations: Stripped Bare Guide to Citing and Using History Sources The Naked Truth About Citations: The rain hammered the windows like accusations. I’d seen it a hundred times before: walk into a room full of private eyes working the family history beat, drop the word “citation” and watch them scatter like…

How to Create Permalinks for Genealogical Source Citations How to Create Permalinks: As genealogists, we spend countless hours scouring the internet for that one elusive record that proves a family connection. We find a digital image of a birth certificate on a state archive website, a detailed obituary in a digitized 19th-century newspaper, or a…

National Hispanic Heritage Month starts September 15. Catholic parish registers often carry a family line centuries before Latin American civil registration began.

The Muppet Show at 50: The Muppet Show meets genealogy. Find the Miss Piggy, Beaker, and Sam the Eagle in your family tree and start writing ancestor sketches.

Grandparents Day: A single 1930s government form can reveal your grandparent’s birthplace, birth date, and parents’ names. Here’s why the SS-5 is genealogy’s best-kept secret.
