have you ever looked at a fact and wondered what on Earth or where on Earth you got this information from well I can't wait to show you a free option to site your sources whether you're a hobbyist or a professional uh genealogist you should be citing your sources with every record you find now the gold standard has always been the evidence explained book by Elizabeth shown Mills you can tell I have really used it there is a new version of it I will whoops sorry new version of it I will leave a link for you in the show notes in the description box below now there is a new option for you that is super easy so that you don't have to thumb through the book and find the exact right copy uh it's a website this is not sponsored by them I just thought it was something important that you should be aware of and well uh yeah let's just jump in Jenny thank thank you so much for being part of the program today I'm super excited because you've got first of all hello hello but before we get started I have to tell you confession I don't normally feature people's products on my channel it's just because I don't want it to become too commercial however I'm so impressed with your website that that's why I reached out because I have been using it as a professional I have been using using it a lot now it doesn't have every source citation I want but boy it's probably got 80% of them so welcome to the program thank you very much yeah we there's so many thousands of things that genealogists might want to site that it's hard to have them all but we're constantly adding new things well and you're tuning in today all the way from Australia so imagine this has become a worldwide website yes and now are most of the users in the US or Australia or most of the US and Canada okay we have them from other countries and we have Australia and the UK and New Zealand and a few other odd bits and pieces well for those who are just trying to figure out what the heck we are talking about you and your husband have built this website that helps us write Source citations because you know as much as we love Elizabeth Shan Mills in her book some sometimes it takes us days to flip through that book and find the right source citation for the right situation so exactly you are definitely doing us a great service it certainly speeds up the process and gives us accurate source citation so let's get a tour what do you say okay here we are with the home screen of site Builder as you can see there's two versions basic and premium basic version is free but it has a limited subset of the rules but it's enough to give people a feel for whether they like it whether it's useful for them premium version of course has all the rules and there's over 600 at the moment it also has various usability features so let's look at the basic version now here you see all the categories of rules and what have you but if you click on something like let's say websites social media you will see that some of them have a little purple padlock on those are rules that are only available to premium users I go back to the top level you can see if I look at some official sets we keep drilling down these ones don't have the padlock so those are available for people with the basic version fantastic so let's pretend for a moment that somebody has a birth certificate let's go fill one out let's go practice one okay birth certificate okay uh a state Utah because it's short to type yeah depository Salt Lake City Utah and then in this particular rule we've only got one style evidence explained but a lot of them you will see multiple Styles that's to enable people who are doing say the courses at the University of stth Clyde or the University of Tasmania in Australia uh-huh so when I click on the style evidence explained you can see that it has automatically generated for me a first foot note a subsequent footnote and a bibliography to use those I click this which is copy to kickboard and it says it's now copied then I can paste it into anything you can paste into I love it a Word document your family history program your ancestry tree your family search family tree Etc love it love it love it now in the free version are US Census records by chance in there I'm just curious they are they are free census United States the federal yes those are all free now what about Canada for Census records just curious Canada beautiful yes are probably the common ones that are used a lot yeah the the basic version tends to have the most common things mhm available it hasn't got the more obscure things like U shipping records or um Wheels now I know you wanted to show us what was behind the premium version let's go take a look at that okay well we can either just jump back to the top or I can use the top menu to click to premium okay now you'll see not only have we got the blue rules we've got some purple things below this lot here are what we call templates so let's say you were going through the parish register of tist in Sussex in England and you yes it's in Sussex you wouldn't just site one record you're likely to extract everything for your family so rather than having to type certain things again and again and again the Oh I like that template comes pre-loaded with as much as you as you like when you create your own template and then we just put in in this case the baptism dates and the person name to yeah cuz I type some of those same same records over and over again yeah and the access date you you can click these buttons to make it today or yesterday or you can type in anything yeah that today button is awesome yeah my husband worked out the need for that having spent three days demonstrating it and putting in the current date there we go we've got them generated did he code all of that website he coded it all I do all the rules so he does the engine I do the rules to Andy nicely done Andy I know you're hiding in the background there thank you nice all right so we could then at this point copy that and go anywhere we want so I do have a question can I just say one other thing see these little little hearts that's for another premium feature called favorites that allows me to save certain things it saves typing great if you've got a New Zealand place name or together some of those are a bit difficult to spell but but also in that case St Peter and St Paul it lets you be consistent with whether you've got an ampersand or an and and since you can share your templates and your favorites with somebody else if you got a group project that you're working on you can make sure that you're all being consistent wonderful question yes how do you create a template right well let's go back up to the top go back to top level and I will pick the parish register again I'll pick baptisms I'll pick one our imagining that I've looked at it on Ancestry so the country I'll say England Church name I'm being showing my favorites but I don't have to enter that I can put it in Michael Place well you know your geography well oh that's a place where I have ancestors from so I remember that one baptism dates let's pick the just putting any any random date here April six person name registered type 1776 baptisms and burials the data register we'll say it's 1760 to 1812 saved and accessed it today well I'm not going to yes I will put that in for now so if I click there you see I've got three Styles if I click evidence explained I've created the full citation but as we say we're going to make a template so I'm going to take out that information that's specific to that one person and then come down here save as template okay I can give it any name that I like anything that makes sense to me so I can go Hy baptisms and burials and I can choose to save it with all the Styles or with just limited Styles in this case I'm just going to click evidence explained not stth C or university of Tasmania because then it won't the template won't include the fields that are only used in those Styles so it's now been saved as a template I go back to top level I can see it there at the end oh nice okay beautiful but I can move it anywhere I'm probably going to be using it a lot initially so I can just drag and drop it to where I want click it there it is ready for me to enter all the baptisms that I found in that register very cool now it that's a premium only feature right yes okay well it's worth the price of admission for sure because I signed up quite a while ago and I've been using it every week so uh very cool what else do I need to know uh oh there's one other premium feature and that is rules search say you've got a family Bible and you don't know where I've put Family Bible did I put it under books did I put it under artifacts you don't need to know what occurred to me because you can just put in the the word Bible and do a search and Bally come up with the two rules that is Advantage for rules is when you are drilling down a long way you could just enter the appropriate parts of the rules like I may contain say census 1800 and search and there I've got the two US censuses for the year 1800 and also an Australian one that covers 1800 so that saves time yeah I was that was one of the things I was going to ask you is if there was a search feature because there's been multiple times when I've been trying to find something and didn't know where to look and so it's under rules okay good to know go back to the front page again and show you that down here at the bottom beautiful Bravo Bravo and as I say for manage personal templates and manage favorites you can export them and it's just exports it as a text file so you can pass it on to anybody else and anybody else who is a site Builder premium us that can then just import those templates and favorites now I see I'm looking at my computer over here where I have not logged in and I see that you've got Facebook and YouTube that will help people understand how to use this yeah now I know from personal experience that I have been able to request certain ones I know that you had created some Quaker record yes I did ation for me so I appreciate that if some are under other Church records yeah yes if somebody wants to request something they don't see on the site how do they do that well if if something that isn't there at all you see use the contact us from this top menu okay or if it's you're in a record and maybe you think I've made a mistake maybe I've left out a space or put too many spaces in then you can send a comment about that rule oh and that probably attaches the rule for you it gives us the details of the rule where you s something so yeah that makes it easy for us to see the problems and correct them this is awesome I love it love it love love love you know because I was creating macros on my computer all the time and so I I still use them occasionally but uh this is this is pretty cool and pretty fast and I don't you know with macros they get lost sometimes when you upgrade your computer or you upgrade your software or whatever and so that can be kind of a pain so you guys have definitely done an excellent service for the genealogy Community for sure I understand that you guys are going to give us a discount for yes if any of your viewers want to subscribe to the premium version we'll give you a 20% discount for the first year just use the code GTV beautiful thank you hey I'm trying to work here what are you doing nobody wants to look at your butt whoa miles we're going to try and record this with you sitting there here we go you ready okay let's see if we can do this