Bibliograph

Tips & quips for the family historian, Elizabeth Shown Mills & Ruth Brossette Lennon

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Label

Tips & quips for the family historian, Elizabeth Shown Mills & Ruth Brossette Lennon

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-154) and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tips & quips for the family historian

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

987438586

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth Shown Mills & Ruth Brossette Lennon

Summary

A compilation of brief quotes and aphorisms for genealogists and family historians, sorted into topical categories for referral

Table Of Contents

Accuracy -- Analysis -- Ancestors & ancestry -- Brick walls -- Caution -- Censuses -- Certainty -- Citations -- Conclusions -- Context -- Creativity -- Credentials -- Discovery -- Document analysis -- Documentation -- Editing -- Education -- Elusive ancestors -- Errors -- Ethics -- Ethnic research -- Evidence -- Facts -- Families -- Family trees -- FAN principle -- Genealogical proof standard -- Genealogy -- Generalizations -- Genetic genealogy -- Gullibility -- History -- Hypotheses -- Identity -- Immigration -- Information -- Internet -- Land -- Learning -- Lecturing -- Luck -- Maps & mapping -- Memoirs & diaries -- Methodology -- Migration -- Miscellany -- Mistakes -- Murphy's law -- Names -- Negative evidence -- Negative findings -- Note taking -- Origins -- Photographs -- Plagiarism -- Poor folks -- Privacy -- Problem solving -- Professional genealogy -- Proof -- Proof statements -- Quality -- Questions -- Reasonably exhaustive research -- Records -- Research -- The research question -- Research traps -- Roots -- Silence -- Software -- Solutions -- Sources -- Standards -- Stories & storytelling -- Success -- Tax records -- Teaching -- Traditions -- Trivial details -- Trust -- Truth -- Uncertainty -- Understanding -- War -- Writing

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Tips and quips for the family historian

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