In the recently posted review of Quicksheet: Your Stripped-Bare Guide to HISTORICAL ‘PROOF’, I stated:
If you have spent much time reading on this website, then you must have read something by now about Elizabeth Shown Mills.
Mills is an expert researcher and family historian. Her works include top selling books on proving and citing sources: Evidence!: Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian and Evidence Explained, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Mills has also written a number of Quicksheets covering research methodologies designed to improve the accuracy and success of the overall research process.
Her works are well known and very popular. Her methodology is sound. From her works any genealogist can learn to evaluate sources of information and to properly cite those sources within their research. However, the shear volume of information in her work can be intimidating for some. Even Mills’ four-page Quicksheets can be too much. So, Mills has come to the rescue. She has produce two new, two-page laminated guides that simplify all her expertise on the subject into its barest form.
The second guide is the QuickSheet: Your Stripped-Bare Guide To Citing Sources’. Showing how easy (and necessary) it is to cite your sources accurately, she provides a template that can be applied by anyone using almost any type of source material. In a single chart containing ten main entries, she actually creates a comprehensive–if bare-boned–guide to citing sources.
Here is what you will find in the guide:
Side 1
Mills provides an easy to follow chart offering what to cite for different types of sources.
Side 2
A “Source Data Collection Form.” Again, an easy to follow and use form. The form outlines the basic citation elements to be collected, a place to write down the information, and a key coding field. Mills gives her express permission to make copies and use the form for personal research.
Get your copy of Elizabeth Shown Mills’ new guide, QuickSheet: Your Stripped-Bare Guide To Citing Sources’, from Family Roots Publishing
