Two new books from Noeline Kyle
Finding Florence Maude Matilda Rose:
Researching and writing women into family history
&
Citing historical sources: a manual for
family historians
Finding Florence Maude Matilda Rose: Researching and writing women into
family history
Remember We Should've Listened to Grandma?
Well, this new book brings that book up-to-date with advice and
information on new, updated, digitised and other resources to help you
research and write about women in your family. Finding Florence, Maude,
Matilda, Rose brings to the family historian the plethora of methodology,
sources and ideas now useful for researching and writing about women
ancestors in the 21st century. The book sets out in a concise and
readable format how you can more easily trace female ancestors in public and
private sources; how you can use the internet and new technologies to do the
research, and how to access and find new online indexes, special collections
and lists of women’s research and resources. Whether you are researching
Australian, English, American, Canadian or European archives Finding
Florence, Maude, Matilda, Rose is an invaluable guide through the many
diverse records available today. The book covers the special areas of
research useful for women’s lives including family sources, family stories,
letters, photographs, cookbooks, cards, oral history and certificates.
Researching women’s lives requires the family historian to be resourceful,
and to search also in public records relevant for women and children, and
the family. This book will guide you through those lists of public records,
women’s organisations, education records, hospitals, health and nursing
records and women’s work, and help you marry that research to a writing
process aimed squarely at writing more effectively and fully about the women
in your past
Citing historical sources: a manual for family historians
This book is aimed at the family historian who, in their research, will
encounter a wide range of oral, written, original, secondary and material
resources. In addition, the internet, online indexes, email and social media
also now constitute another level of source material you will find yourself
accessing in your research. This book provides some general rules and specific
guidelines to make your task of working with referencing and the construction of
bibliographies as easy and accessible as possible. The list of topics include:
Consistency of the citation
Acknowledge prior work
Footnotes
Endnotes
Textual references
Plagiarism
Verbatim quotes, not too many, not too long
Paraphrasing
How to reference
Books
E-Books,
chapters in E-Books
Journal articles, book chapters, magazines, pamphlets
E-Journals, E-magazines, Online articles
Manuscripts, family papers
Government publications
Newspapers
Ibid, op. cit, short forms
Oral history, interviews, recordings
URLs (Universal Resource Locators)
Social Media (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, blogs)
Letters, emails
Online indexes
Citing images, diagrams, maps, photographs
Constructing a bibliography
Books, chapters in books
Journals, magazines, pamphlets, online documents, online indexes
Government publications, newspapers
Family papers, manuscripts, oral records, letters, emails
Oral interviews
Creating copyright
General standards and guidelines
Stretching the truth
Controversial subject matter
Defamation and libel