Citation Quality
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RootsMagic lets you apply a quality rating to each use of your citations based on the industry-standard Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Process Map for Evidence Analysis", Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogy Publishing, 2007).
From her discussion, Sources give us information from which we select evidence for analysis. A sound conclusion may be considered Proof.
To enter your quality ratings After careful analysis and evaluation of the associated source, you can enter a quality rating in each of three factors that best describes the results of your analysis.
You will see the 3 Quality options when you are editing a citation on the edit person form.
Source
- Original
- Derivative
- Don't know
Information
- Primary
- Secondary
- Don't know
Evidence
- Direct
- Indirect
- Negative
- Don't know