In his presentation about Genealogical Documentation, Jones made three\u00a0comments I think are important:<\/p>\n
Documentation is all about communicating clearly and you can\u2019t communicate something you don\u2019t understand. You have to start by understanding the source you\u2019re using. What is it? Where did it come from? Why was it created?\u201d<\/p>\n
There are many ways to cite right.\u00a0Will the reader understand clearly the context from your citation? That\u2019s what important.\u201d<\/p>\n
We use conventions that are short cuts.\u00a0Italicizing a name of something means that it was published. If we quote something from an unpublished manuscript, we don\u2019t italicize it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been listening to tapes from the 2013 Federation of Genealogical Society conference. One of my favourite speakers is Thomas W. Jones, who specializes in Fairfax, Virginia research. Jones also wrote the book Mastering Genealogical Proof. 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