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(This contest closed August 10, 2011) Sign up for my free email newsletter by August 10 and I’ll enter you in a random drawing to win Elizabeth Shown Mills work, Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. Mills is a nationally renowned genealogist/historian who has lectured at numerous genealogy conferences, edited a national journal, and taught the Advanced Research Methodology course at Samford University’s Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research. In other words, she is a leader in this field.

This book is a concise, easy to follow tool wherein Mills provides guidelines for documenting sources and analyzing evidence, patterns for citations, and examples by record type. If you could only have one evidence and citation guide that is not expensive, this would be the one I would recommend.

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If you are looking for a more in-depth resource for analyzing and citing evidence sources you will want Mills’ book, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace (Second Edition).

Sorry, it’s not part of the drawing but thought you might want to know about it.

This 800+ page book is the genealogist’s Bible when it comes to citing sources. It was also a required text at Samford University’s course that I recently attended: Writing and Publishing for Genealogists.