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Syllabus
Thomas W. Jones, Mastering Genealogical Documentation, (Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical Society, 2017.) Softbound available from the publisher’s website www.ngsgenealogy.com. Kindle format at Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Genealogical-Documentation-Thomas-Jones/dp/B0743HCD4T
Wednesday, 13 Sep 2017
Chapter 1 - The Purpose and Nature of Genealogical Documentation
Wednesday, 20 Sep 2017
Chapter 2 - Noncitation Aspects of Genealogical Documentation
Wednesday, 27 Sep 2017
Chapter 3 - Citation Settings, Forms and Shortcuts
Wednesday, 4 Oct 2017
Chapter 4 - Assembling Components into Clear Citations
Wednesday, 11 Oct 2017
Chapter 5 - Capitalization, Italics, Punctuation and Other Citation Subtleties
Wednesday, 18 Oct 2017
Chapter 6 - Determining a Source's Publication Status
Wednesday, 25 Oct 2017
Chapter 7 - Issues in Citing Source Titles, Descriptions or Both
Wednesday, 1 Nov 2017
Chapter 8 - Authors, Creators and Informants
Wednesday, 8 Nov 2017
Chapter 9 - Citing Absent, Hidden, Obvious, and Perplexing Dates for Sources, Information and Events
Wednesday, 15 Nov 2017
Chapter 10 - Citing Numbered, Grouped, and Subgrouped Offline Sources and Information Items
Wednesday, 22 Nov 2017
Chapter 11 - Answering the Wherin and Whereis Citation Questions for Online Sources
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017
Chapter 12 - Identifying Offline Publishers and Repositories
Wednesday, 6 Dec 2017
Chapter 13 - Citing Original Online Content
Wednesday, 13 Dec 2017
Chapter 14 - Citing Images of Previously Published Material
(December break)
Wednesday, 3 Jan 2018
Chapter 15 - Citing Images of Previously Unpublished Material
Wednesday, 10 Jan 2018
Chapter 16 - Multiparty Options for Citing Images
Wednesday, 17 Jan 2018
Chapter 17 - Documenting on Your Own