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 == '''Attitude and Solving Common Causes of Problems''' ==
-Your attitude about tough family history research problems has a big impact on your chances of success. Whether you think you can, or whether you think you cannot—you are right! Develop a relentless “track-‘em-down” attitude pursuing and analyzing all sources.<sup>1 &nbsp;</sup>&nbsp;Never give up on the problem, and never give up searching for new ideas and ways of researching the problem. Hunt down the answers no matter what it takes.
+Your attitude about tough family history research problems has a big impact on your chances of success. Whether you think you can, or whether you think you cannot—you are right! Develop a relentless “track-‘em-down” attitude pursuing and analyzing all sources.<ref name="one">Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Genealogical Mindset &amp; Principles of Scholarship" (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology &amp; Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 13 June 2005).</ref>&nbsp;Never give up on the problem, and never give up searching for new ideas and ways of researching the problem. Hunt down the answers no matter what it takes.
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 | valign="middle" | 1. Unproductive attitude.
-| valign="middle" | Develop a relentless "track 'em down" attitude.<sup>1</sup>
+| valign="middle" | Develop a relentless "track 'em down" attitude.<ref name="one"/>
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 | valign="middle" | 2. Poor research logs.
-| valign="middle" | Partially fill out logs BEFORE looking at each source. This includes each search’s goal (person and event you seek to document).<sup>2</sup>
+| valign="middle" | Partially fill out logs BEFORE looking at each source. This includes each search’s goal (person and event you seek to document).<ref>G. David Dilts, "Research Logs: The Most Important Tool for Organizing Your Family History," [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2250993&referer=brief_results ''Genealogical Journal''] 30 (2002): 10-11. [FHL Book 973 D25gj v. 30 2002].</ref>
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 | valign="middle" | 3. Inadequate research documentation.
-| valign="middle" | Document and organize AS YOU GO.<sup>3</sup>
+| valign="middle" | Document and organize AS YOU GO.<ref>Carol Harless, et. al., [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82725149&referer=brief_results ''PAF Documentation Guidelines''] (N.p.: Silicon Valley PAF Users Group, 1993), 1 [FHL Book 005.3 H224].</ref>
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 | valign="middle" | 4. Stagnant thinking on the problem.
-| valign="middle" | Correlate what you have found. Use new forms to pull out new patterns and force your brain to try something different.<sup>4</sup>
+| valign="middle" | Correlate what you have found. Use new forms to pull out new patterns and force your brain to try something different.<ref>Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Dissecting the Research Problem” (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology &amp; Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 17 June 2005).</ref>
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-| valign="middle" | 5. Failure to put an ancestor in community context.<sup>5</sup><br>
+| valign="middle" | 5. Failure to put an ancestor in community context.<ref>Mills, “Genealogical Mindset &amp; Principles of Scholarship.”</ref><br>
 | valign="middle" | Trap the answer to the question in a web of associates and neighbors on both sides of the county boundary line.<sup>6</sup>
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 . '''''[[Sharing:_a_good_way_to_FIND_ancestors|Share]].'''''&nbsp; Give in order to receive. Contribute to the Family History Library’s ''Pedigree Resource File'' (“Preserve Your Genealogy” at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Share/Preserve/frameset_preserve.asp), to Family Tree Makers’s ''[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/wftonline/ World Family Tree Pedigrees]'', to the [http://www.everton.com/b/magazine.html ''Everton's Genealogical Helper Magazine'']’s Computer Roots Cellar, to Keith&nbsp;A.&nbsp; Johnson’s ''[http://members.ozemail.com.au/~grdxxx/ Genealogical Research Directory],'' and to family group sheet exchanges advertised in ''Everton's Genealogical Helper Magazine''. Send a copy of John Doe’s family history (include your address) to each county library and to each state and county genealogical society where John Doe lived. Publish an article on the family in their local genealogical periodical. Register your address in directories of members of genealogical Internet web sites and submit your genealogy to their libraries. [[Create_a_genealogy_web_page|Put your genealogy on a web page]] and register your site with major search engines and lists. Other researchers will start to contact you and share added details.
-== Endnotes ==
+== Sources ==
+{{reflist}}
 . Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Genealogical Mindset &amp; Principles of Scholarship" (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology &amp; Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 13 June 2005).
 . G. David Dilts, "Research Logs: The Most Important Tool for Organizing Your Family History," [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2250993&referer=brief_results ''Genealogical Journal''] 30 (2002): 10-11. [FHL Book 973 D25gj v. 30 2002].
-. Carol Harless, et. al., ''PAF Documentation Guidelines'' (N.p.: Silicon Valley PAF Users Group, 1993), 1.
+. Carol Harless, et. al., [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82725149&referer=brief_results ''PAF Documentation Guidelines''] (N.p.: Silicon Valley PAF Users Group, 1993), 1 [FHL Book 005.3 H224].
 . Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Dissecting the Research Problem” (lecture in Course 4 Advanced Methodology &amp; Evidence, Institute for Genealogical and Historical Research at Samford University, Birmingham, Ala., 17 June 2005).