Cite Your Sources

December 27, 2011

A good resolution for the New Year! "Citing your sources" means to record the information found for your research. This is so important because you may need to go back to that source to take another look at it at a later time. Also, it is important for future genealogists to know where you got that information. It could be that information may no longer be available due to implemented privacy laws, natural disasters, etc...Without citing sources, you may end up doing your research all over again, not remembering that search until you get the end result. 

A good book to help you with this endeavor is by Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidence Explained. Take a little more time to record your sources today and save yourself great amounts of time later.

Tiffany W.
Midwest Genealogy Center