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Revision as of 14:11, 31 January 2018
Typography[1]
- Main Person in Boldface Caps and Small Caps.
- Children in Regular Caps and Small Caps
- Grandchildren, when listed, in italics.
- Lineage line in italics with general number nonitalic (Ebeneezer4, John3-2, Percival1). Combine generational number when successive ancestors have the same given name.
Personal Names
- C. P.Frenyear: Space Between Initials, but not full name.
- Mary Louise "Lou" Smith: nickname inside quotation marks, after the middle name
- John Smith Jr: no comma before Jr. or Sr.
- John Smith III, John Smith IV: no commas before roman numerals.
- Mary (Smith) Doe: maiden names within parenthesizes
- Mary (Smith) (Doe) Roe: space between the two sets of parentheses, listed in order of the marriage.
- John _____: five underscores for unknown names
- Mary Smith [?]: question marks inside brackets to denote unknown names
- Mary Smith/Smyth: alternate spellings seperated by slash
Spelling/hyphenation
Style Guides used
Stratton,Penelope L. Guide to Genealogical Writing:How to Write and Publish your Family History Boston, Massachusetts : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013.
Mills,Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained : Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace, 3rd edition Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company, 2007.
Internal Standards
Infoboxes
References
- ↑ Penelope L Stratton, Guide to Genealogical Writing:How to Write and Publish your Family History (Boston : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013), location 484.