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Summary: Publisher's Note for the 2007 edition by Clearfield Publishing:
Comment: First Revised Edition with updated sample citations and style changes.

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Mills's QuickSheet provides a template for citing historical sources on the Internet. It also lays
down rules to help you judge the reliability of these sources.

Published in the form of
a laminated folder, the QuickSheet contains a series of sample citations showing the correct way to
identify online sources such as databases, census images, and digital books and articles.
/>Based on the premise that online sources are publications that have the same characteristics as
printed publications, it provides rules and models for common record types such as passenger lists,
vital records, and newspapers. Since a website is the online equivalent of a book, the QuickSheet
shows you how to cite author/creator/owner of a website, title of the website, place (URL), date
posted, and so forth.

Convenient for desktop use at home or in the library, the
QuickSheet answers all those niggling questions left unanswered by the standard citation guides; it
is also a perfect companion to the classic citation manual Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the
Family Historian and Mills's 885-page definitive guide to the citation and analysis of historical
sources, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace.

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Summary: A Definite Must Have!
Comment: Any genealogist worth his or her own salt must have this useful reference tool. In this day and age
of electronic genealogy it is growing more and more important to fully document your sources found
online. They can be here today and gone tomorrow. This easy to follow guide takes the guess work
out of documentation. It lays a firm foundation with its basic principles and has models for common
record types such as census images, census indexes & databases, digital articles & books, historical
records, land-entry records, newspaper & newspaper items, passenger lists, social security death
index and vital records. It gives examples of three different entry types--source list entry, full
reference note, and short reference note. It is four pages long and comes laminated for long
lasting use. This is something you definitely should keep at your fingertips!

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Summary: Every Genealogist Should Have This on Their Desk
Comment: This nifty laminated "Quicksheet" is packed with citation examples for a wide variety of Internet
genealogy sources. If you research on the Internet, this handy guide is a must-have!

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