Setting Your Cites

By Rick Crume Premium

Stymied by source documentation? Heed these hints for entering citations in your genealogy software.

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A contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine, Rick Crume specializes in online research, genealogy software, DNA testing and British genealogy.

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