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Bibliographic Information

This Section is usually only needed for published books. The information can be obtained by searching for the book on Google Books and copying the Bibliografic information from the main book page.

note: for correct formatting place a ":" at the begging of each line.

Citation

For guidelines on citations formats used for various sources in this research, see Citation References.

Books

Visit WorldCat and search for the book. On the profile page for the book you will find a "cite/export" button. Select Chicago, and copy and paste. Delete the URL at the end of the citation.

Links

Bulleted list of links to sources or links related to the source.

Category

Include the type of source which best describes the new source.

Primary

Category:Birth Certificate - For Sources that provide birth certificates.
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[[Category:Birth Certificate]]
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Category:Census - For sources that provide census records.
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[[Category:Birth Certificate]]
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Category:Death Certificate - Sources that provide death certificates.
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[[Category:Birth Certificate]]
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Category:Marriage Certificate - For sources that provide marriage certificates.
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[[Category:Birth Certificate]]
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Category:Military Records - For sources that provide general military records.
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[[Category:Military Records]]
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- Category:Revolutionary War - For sources that provide military records from Revolutionary War.
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[[:Category:Revolutionary War]]
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- Category:Indian War - For sources that provide military records from Indian Wars
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[[:Category:Indian War]]
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- Category:Civil War - For sources that provide military records from Civil Wars
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[[:Category:Civil War]]
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- Category:World War One - For sources that provide military records from World War One
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[[:Category:World War One]]
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- Category:World War Two - For sources that provide military records from World War Two
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[[:Category:World War Two]]
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Category:Online Index - For general online indexes.
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[[Category:Online Index]]
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Secondary

Category:Books‎ - Sources that are books (print or digital) -
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[[Category:Books]]
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Category:Headstones‎ - Sources that are images of headstones, transcriptions of headstones, or sites that provide indexes of headstones (i.e. FindAGrave.com -
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[[Category:Headstones]]
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Category:Website‎ - general websites
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[[Category:Website]]
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- Category:Forums‎ - online forums
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[[Category:Forums]]
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- Category:Genealogies - online genealogies
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[[Category:Genealogies]]
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Format

The following can be copied and pasted when creating a new source page.

==Bibliographic Information==

===Citation===

==Links==

==Notes==

===People in this Source===

===Places in this Source===

===Organizations in this Source===

==Related Sources==

==Documents From this Source==
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