Citations

Recently I’ve been processing a number of family history photos or scans of old family artifacts such as letters. For images that are historic which I may share or distribute as a part of my research, I want to be sure that I have a good citation for the image and I want to embed it in the image itself so that the sourcing information is less likely to be lost as the image gets distributed or passed around. I started off using Pixelmator Pro to painstakingly add text citations to the images, but this seemed arduous and somewhat inconsistent after a while, and if I needed to tweak the citation it got a bit fiddly.

In my research I’ve been finding a lot of newspaper articles and transcribing them using automation. But when I’m documenting those articles and linking them to people, I also need to create a source citation. I try to use Evidence Explained-style citations to the best of my ability, but there’s a lot of repeated boilerplate text when writing these up – and there is formatting! Some parts of italicized, so that gets tedious, too.