US Southern Colonies Sources and Resources Directory

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Source and Resources Page Directory

This page serves as a directory for the Sources and Resources pages of the US Southern Colonies Project. As a pre-1700 project, the project includes a US Southern Colonies Project Reliable Sources page.

Introduction

Sources, or Resources ? What's the difference ?

Laura DeSpain, our Sourcerers Team Leader, explains the distinction between sources and resources as follows:

1. Sources: "This is where you find the information that you use to create a citation."
2. Resources: "Information that will help you locate a source. Including the history, changes in boundaries, wars, anything that may help you locate the source you are looking for." (These are the things that can affect the location of a source, whether it may exist anymore, etc.)

Tip from Laura: "When I cannot locate a source, the first thing I do is start checking boundary changes and whether or not battles or fires may have destroyed any places that stored records for the area."

WikiTree's Sources Style Guide help page defines Sources and References more broadly (omitting mention of "Resources"):

• Sources: "What we call sources could be called items in a source list, bibliography, or works cited." with the next paragraph saying "On WikiTree we put them beneath the references and a line that says "See also:". "
• References: "What we call references could be called citations, reference notes, inline references, footnotes, or endnotes." and the next paragraph says "A reference provides a source for a specific statement in the text."

Table of Sources/Resources

NOTE: Green-shaded rows are US Southern Colonies Project pages (project-level pages categorized under Category: US Southern Colonies Project; colony-level pages are categorized under the colony-level location categories). Grey-shaded rows are other projects that have sources/resources that may also be helpful to US Southern Colonies Project members. If the page listed is a category page, it will be followed by a [Navigate] link, which will show subcategories that may be of interest to project members.

1. ↑ The Sourcerers Team compiled a quick-reference by collecting the information in the Resource Sections of Team Pages: see Space: US Southern Colonies Sources. The name of this page will be changed; the content may change to better accommodate the needs of the Sourcerers Team.
2. ↑ Perhaps this page was intended to cover sources for the post-1700-1776 period.
3. ↑ Listing and Reviews of Books containing genealogical information about persons in colonial Maryland.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5} Was "Resources"; before that was "US Southern Colonies British...[Colony name]".
5. ↑ Categorization Project created a companion space page for all the information that was previouisly included on the category page).
6. ↑ The category continues to 1776, past the timeframe for the Jamestown Colony (which ends with the 1624/5 Jamestown Muster).