Style Guide

Typography

• 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, John^3-2, 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

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

• Infobox Person - documentation
• Infobox Book - documentation