Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian
by Elizabeth Shown Mills, Elizabeth S. Mills
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Author: Elizabeth S. Mills, Elizabeth Shown MillsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01-01
ISBN: 0806315431
Number of pages: 124
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
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Book Review: Herculean task superbly done--careful and copious examples
Summary: 5 Stars
In this book, one of America's foremost genealogical scholars has taken on a Herculean task and accomplished it superbly. Every scholarly discipline has its own basic standards for the nitty-gritty of citational form--the sort of thing that we all hoped we had escaped after our term-paper days were over. In 1980, before genealogy was faced with the computer revolution, the late Richard S. Lackey, FASG, published Cite Your Sources, the first comprehensive guide to "Documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records." Since Lackey's untimely death in 1983, the few attempts to update his recommendations have been Quixotic and (fortunately) unsuccessful, until the current work by Elizabeth Shown Mills, the editor of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Elizabeth Mills takes on more than citations. She recognizes that citations and critical analysis are closely related. We have all seen genealogies that are promoted as thoroughly documented, but when we investigate the sources cited, we find that the author was unable to evaluate them or to draw sound conclusions from them. Citations by themselves do not guarantee the quality of a published work, but they are essential so that the evidence can be judged and, if necessary, the research can be repeated. The discussion of genealogical analysis in this work is among the finest we have seen; studying it carefully will not only reward genealogists but also scholars in related fields. Evidence! provides careful and copious examples of each type of citation that the careful genealogist is likely to encounter, with charts indicating the first citation to the work, document (etc.), subsequent citations to it, and its entry in a separate bibliography. This is not to suggest that everyone will agree with all of Elizabeth Mills's recommendations. While all of the major journals have gone to footnote citations, each has developed its own quirks, and the editors of each are grateful when contributors try to match their journal's form. In addition, Evidence! recommends that more information be included in a citation than others might consider necessary. At least for me, information on the current location of standard county archives (especially probate and land records) is better provided in such works as Ancestry's Red Book than it is in citations. Whether one is in total agreement with every recommendation, Elizabeth Mills has provided the best single source for genealogical documentation and a seminal discussion of genealogical analysis. This is a book that every genealogist should be required to own. --David L. Greene, Ph.D., CG, FASG; Editor, The American Genealogist; July 1998, 73:233
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