{"id":41,"date":"2008-07-31T23:06:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T06:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-08-09T07:51:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T14:51:37","slug":"rootsmagic-4-unwrapped-citation-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"RootsMagic 4 Unwrapped &#8211; Citation Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another quicky while I&#8217;m at the BYU genealogy conference.<\/p>\n<p>We all know how important it is to add sources for the information we enter. When adding a source in RootsMagic, we&#8217;ve always been able to enter the &#8220;quality&#8221; of the citation. But it has been limited to &#8220;primary&#8221;, &#8220;secondary&#8221;, &#8220;questionable&#8221;, and &#8220;unreliable&#8221;. Until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rmcitationquality.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42\" title=\"Citation Quality\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/rmcitationquality.png\" alt=\"Citation Quality\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, RootsMagic 4 now follows approved standards for evidence analysis in an easy to understand format.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about evaluating your genealogy sources, visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcgcertification.org\/skillbuilders\/skbld085.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.bcgcertification.org\/skillbuilders\/skbld085.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And our friend Mark Tucker over at ThinkGenealogy.com has put together a Genealogy Research Map that covers the full research process (including assessing the quality of a citation). You can download it for free from:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgenealogy.com\/2008\/07\/31\/genealogy-research-process-map-version-2\/\">http:\/\/www.thinkgenealogy.com\/2008\/07\/31\/genealogy-research-process-map-version-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the only new source enhancement coming in RootsMagic, but we&#8217;re saving the best for later. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quicky while I&#8217;m at the BYU genealogy conference. We all know how important it is to add sources for the information we enter. When adding a source in RootsMagic, we&#8217;ve always been able to enter the &#8220;quality&#8221; of the citation. But it has been limited to &#8220;primary&#8221;, &#8220;secondary&#8221;, &#8220;questionable&#8221;, and &#8220;unreliable&#8221;. Until now. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[42,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rootsmagic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}