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The late, great Jones2 “helping” me write
I try to cite my sources, but sometimes (see Easter post from last week), I just run rampant collecting info and forget to write down where I went. I have special sticky notes from the Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group (link) and a notepad and try to open a new tab in my browser when I go to a new place, but sometimes I just forget. Or when I do have all the info, I just can’t find my Elizabeth Shown Mills’ book (it’s next to me on the desk, but I’d have to move all the charging things to get to it, so…).
Many moons ago, when I wrote a book about my not-family Marianis, I found out that I have a really bad memory. Even though almost all of my sources were from the same place, I couldn’t remember what to do. So I created a personal cheat-sheet of my common sources. I put it into my notebook in a sheet protector and could easily get to my most common sources.
Here is a link to that: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/8j82jz6dlxg7ed3ou4bqs/AE7HiXQvCj-9DJU3ARpajko?rlkey=0ebgofbiscpmn73mmlt699uce&st=t15tonic&dl=0
Feel free to download and add your own most common. And I am going to try to remember to be better at citations…
Sources:
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Revised edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2009.
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