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