Dr. Jones' book is not a replacement for Evidence Explained, but sort of a companion. As the author himself says, it is a textbook for citation creation where Evidence Explained is a reference manual.
I am not as far along in Dr. Jones' book as I thought I would be at this point, mostly because I was inspired to go back and reread Genealogical Standards and the first two chapters of Evidence Explained, but I'm actually excited to keep reading and learn more. I'm very hopeful that this textbook will help me to better understand how to create my own citations. It has bothered my for some time that I don't cite my sources here on my blog, but my posts would take four times longer to put together if I did. My goal is that by the time the study group is finished, that I will be able to go back post-by-post and cite any sources that I have shared in my posts.
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If you are interested in watching the Week 1 session, you can watch it easily on YouTube but you won't be able to see the comments of those who were watching or add to the conversation. To see that, you just have to register either through Google, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. You can find the registration links for all of DearMYRTLE's September hangouts here.
There may be other places as well, but I know that you can buy Dr. Jones' book at the NGS webiste in softcover or at Amazon for Kindle.
I can't believe we'll be almost three weeks into next year when this group wraps-up, but I can't wait to see where the book and group together can take my knowledge of and comfort with creating citations in the next few months.
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