Blog Home Cite-Builder Home Looks Right, Isn’t Right: The Problem with AI-Generated Genealogy Citations Why use a dedicated purpose-built citation generator for your genealogical sources rather than one of the many freely available AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini)? We’ve done some research into the current capabilities of these AI… Continue reading Looks Right, Isn’t Right: The Problem with AI-Generated Genealogy Citations
Blog Home Cite-Builder Home Finding the volume number for a memorial from the Registry of Deeds The Registry of Deeds was established in Ireland in 1708 to provide a method of recording deeds of sale, lease and mortgage and other transactions involving land. Copies, or memorials, of the contents of the deeds could be recorded… Continue reading Finding the volume number for a memorial from the Registry of Deeds
Blog Home Cite-Builder Home Do I need to cite negative findings? A question came up recently about negative findings. That is, when you search for something but don’t find it, is it necessary to create a citation for this search, and if so, how do you do it? Let me give you a scenario first.… Continue reading Do I need to cite negative findings?
Blog Home Cite-Builder Home Should you enter a long website address (URL) in a citation? There are several issues with including website addresses (also known as URLs) in citations. The first is that they can be very long, and the second is that they are not always “fixed” and therefore not replicable, especially when the… Continue reading Should you enter a long website address (URL) in a citation?
Blog Home Cite-Builder Home Finding the title of an imaged document. What do you do when you need to know the title associated with a book or document containing an image you are looking for online? One of the easiest ways is to look at the images at the start of the document. The title… Continue reading Finding the title of an imaged document
Blog Home Cite-Builder Home Finding citation details for records on Ancestry. There are a number of elements that need to be included in citations of the records we find about our ancestors. Unfortunately, sometimes finding these on Ancestry can be tricky. For example, if you are trying to cite an 1860 US census record we… Continue reading Finding citation details for records on Ancestry
