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    AF-024: Why Citing Sources is Crucial in Genealogy and How to Do it Right

    AF-024: Why Citing Sources is Crucial in Genealogy and How to Do it Right

    FromAncestral Findings

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    AF-024: Why Citing Sources is Crucial in Genealogy and How to Do it Right

    FromAncestral Findings

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    Length:
    7 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 1, 2015
    Format:
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    As a beginning genealogist, you may not give much thought to citing your sources in your research. However, it is a vitally important part of any serious type of genealogical pursuit. Citing sources serves a variety of purposes. Most importantly, it lets you know where you found your information. This is crucial as you get further into your research on a family. You may find new, conflicting information on a person you’ve already researched. By citing your sources as you go, you can see where you found the original information, look at it again, compare it to the new source or sources, and decide if one is more likely to be correct or more believable than the other...
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    Released:
    Jun 1, 2015
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    Genealogy is the most wonderful of pastimes. I love it, and you should, too. There are endless reasons why. Genealogy is one of the fastest growing hobbies in the western world, as more and more people discover the exhilarating and slightly addictive nature of ancestor hunting. It’s like an ongoing mystery with clues you have to discover and then put together to come to conclusions about your family’s past. The mystery never ends, because there is no end to the amount of time you can potentially go back in history with your family research. Yet, the more you can discover, the more complete picture of your family you can put together. It’s insanely rewarding, and the more you do it, the more you will want to do it. That’s a given...