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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Mills Source for Memorial?
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 09:12:06 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDKEIGCIAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Cheri Casper wrote:
>Lee - I beg to differ with you about Mills book not being oriented toward
>computers. While she doesn't provide a lot of examples for URLs, websites,
>etc. she *does* touch on them, an obvious bow to technology, and the book
>was written in 1997 . . . well into the computer generation.

No, her book does have citation models that refer or allude to
computers. My meaning (and what she herself said here in 1998) is that
none of her citation models were designed with computers in mind. That is,
her citation models were designed for their intended purpose without
consideration of how they were to be constructed by the user whether by
pencil and paper, using a typewriter (old manual one or a new-fangled word
processor), or a computer using a word-processor and/or genealogy
program. If anything, I think the design was for the manual construction
using the pencil and paper method. Then if the writer was using any
advanced word-smithing method, the resulting citation would be plugged in
as appropriate. Thus the citation would be manually constructed and
applied, not computerized using "fill-in-the-blanks", automatically-created
as would be done using a computer. On the other hand, she was not averse
to "automatic" creation of citations by computer -- just that the models
were not designed with that in mind.


Lee Hoffman/KY
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