‘Stripped Bare Guide’ Introduces Beginners to Evidence Style Citation

Elizabeth Shown Mills, the celebrated genealogist and doyen of historical citation practices, knows that most beginning genealogists will be intimidated by her magnum opus, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. New Fourth Edition. In part, this is why we have published her diminutive new book, Your Stripped Bare Guide to Citing and Using History Sources.

As Mrs. Mills explains, the new book, “offers . . . the simplicity of the little Evidence! [the 1997 precursor to Stripped Bare] updated with Evidence Explained’s critical instructions on the building of citations—including its game-changing universal templates that enable beginning researchers to cite any type of historic record, in any form, no matter how or where it is accessed.”

To illustrate, here’s a sample template that shows beginners how to cite birth and death records: