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Unless you can find them at your local library!
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| Greenwood's classic genealogy book covers all the basics and advanced topics you need to know. The new edition
includes more on using the internet as well as traditional sources. Topics include: Familiar record practices (such as handwriting
differences, Julian vs Gregorian calendar systems), Evaluation of evidence, and Different kinds of records and their use.
You might be able to find this book at your library, but I suggest you actually own it so you can refer to it frequently. |
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The definitive source for evaluating and documenting your sources used to be
Cite Your Sources, by Richard Lackey.
Unfortunately, after Mr. Lackey's death, nobody took over his book and updated it.
Many things have changed since he published this masterpiece in 1981:
the standards for "proof" have changed due to increased focus and discussion
by amateur and professional genealogists, the internet introduced new sources
of secondary information and associated new problems of evaluation and documentation,
and lots of new ideas from the hordes of people now pursuing genealogy.
Evidence presents in a fairly short, readable book, the basics that all of us should be following. There is a danger in reading this book: you will kick yourself for not reading it before you amassed that pile of notes without all the citation information you will discover you should have. |
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| If you are considering getting certified as a genealogist (CG) you need this book. If you aren't planning on getting
certified but want to be professional in your work, you should have this book.
This book defines Genealogical Proof Standard, Data Collection Standards, Evidence Evaluation Standards, and Compilation Standards. It also talks about teaching standards and suggested methods for documenting your results, whether in a letter or email, or as a formal study. About half the book is devoted to examples of things such as Proof Summaries, Compiled Lineages and Pedigrees, and Compiled Genealogies using the NGSQ or Register system. I've tried to find this book in the library, several libraries in fact, but have never been able to find it. The latest edition is called the "Millennium Edition", copyright 2000. |