Today’s episode of Research Like a Pro is about creating reference note citations for your genealogical sources. In this fifth part of our revisiting the Research Like a Pro steps series, we discuss crafting citations the first time you look at a source and saving that in your research log (which we will discuss next week). Following your research plan, creating citations, and research logging all happen simultaneously. Tune in to hear more about the five elements of a source citations – who, what, when, where is, where in, and some common questions people have about them.
Transcript
Nicole (1s):
This is Research Like a Pro episode 117: Revisiting Source Citations. Welcome to Research Like a Pro a Genealogy Podcast about taking your research to the next level, hosted by Nicole Dyer and Diana Elder accredited genealogy professional. Diana and Nicole are the mother-daughter team at FamilyLocket.com and the creators of the Amazon bestselling book, Research Like a Pro a Genealogists Guide. I’m Nicole co-host of the podcast join Diana and me as we discuss how to stay organized, make progress in our research and solve difficult cases. Let’s go.
Nicole (45s):
Hello and welcome to the show. I’m Nicole Dyer co-host of Research Like a Pro, and I’m here with my mother accredited genealogists, Diana elder. Hello, Diana.
Diana (55s):
Hi, Nicole. Nice to be here today on the podcast.
Nicole (59s):
What have you been working on?
Diana (1m 1s):
Well, I’m having a lot of fun working in the SLIG DNA practicum. We are getting four cases and we got our first case last week and it was so fun. I was able to solve it, and I use all of the tools that we’ve been working with on getting an efficient way to do DNA. So I use the AirTable research log and use lucid chart. And I even got out my whiteboard at one point just to draw out a few things. So it was really a fun case and I’m excited to continue working
Nicole (1m 33s):
Good job. It’s fun to work on a case where, you know, there’s a solution.
Diana (1m 39s):
It is. And then we get to come back together and talk about it and see how other people solved it and, you know, just get additional ideas. And I agree. It’s nice to work on something where you actually get to find out what happened in case you can’t solve it.
Nicole (1m 54s):
It’s motivational to know that somebody else has already solved it and giving you kind of the starting clues. And if you just keep going, you’ll probably figure it out. I know sometimes with our own family research projects, we wonder, is this even possible to solve? Is there any record out there that will give me the clues I need? So maybe if we’d just change our mindset with that too, always believing that we’ll find the answer, then we’ll be successful.
Diana (2m 19s):
Agreed. And now with DNA, there are things that we are solving that we really couldn’t solve without it. So it’s kind of exciting to add this new source of DNA to our toolkit, for genealogy. So let’s get to our listeners spotlight today. This is from Helen V. Smith and the title of the review is “excellent research methodology, Diana and Nicole teach great research methodology in an engaging manner while US-based genealogical research methods can be applied to any records that they do also delve into research outside the US and now also delve into using DNA for genealogical research. Lots of great information from both Diana is an accredited genealogist and Nicole’s working towards certification and both are working professionally in the field.”
Diana (3m 7s):
So thank you so much for that review and those comments, Helen, we appreciate those.
Nicole (3m 12s):
Yes, thank you for recommending us to your friends. Today we are talking about Source Citations. Again, we are revisiting this subject and we have been revisiting all the steps in The Research Like a Pro process, starting with creating an objective for your project, reviewing everything that you know, in the timeline and analysis, doing some locality research, research planning, and now Source Citations. And the reason we put this topic here is because when you do your research plan and you follow that plan, you’re going to be citing the sources that you find in your research log. So we have Source Citations this week and then research logs next week. And they all kind of go together.
Diana (3m 53s):
Right. And I know that for a lot of people, they really do not like the idea of doing Source Citations, because it slows them down. It’s much more fun just to research, research, research, and click around. But that way of researching is what has given a lot of us problems in the past, where we found records and have no idea how to go back and find them again. So let’s just talk about the reasoning, because I think if we understand why we should do Source Citations, that can be motivational to do them. So it gives us a chance to track our research positive and negative. And whenever I ask people, I’m working with, if they have ever searched for a source in the same database, you know, they’ll just nod their heads and laugh because we all know that if we don’t actually record somewhere, that we didn’t find our record, we will eventually circle back and try to find it again in that same record.
Diana (4m 48s):
So it really does save us time even though we may begrudge those few minutes, we create a Source Citations in our research log. If we doesn’t do it, then that source is taken care of. And then we also want to make sure others can follow our pathway and ourselves. We want to make sure we can revisit a source if we need to. So it helps us get back to a source or others. And quite honestly, when we do a Source Citations, we have to dig in and understand that source better. Often I will have to go to the very beginning of the microfilm, read some of the front matter. And all of that deepens your understanding. It’s amazing how creating a citation helps you get so much more out of the source, which for anyone who’s a serious researcher is a huge motivation to write good Source Citations.
Diana (5m 37s):
And then it shows reasonably exhaustive research. If we are going to put together a proof argument saying, this is why we believe this ancestor is connected to this ancestor, we really need to be able to show we’ve done our due diligence. We have researched all the records. If we say something like, there’s just no marriage record in this county. Well, who’s going to believe us unless we have the five Source Citations there of everything we’ve checked. So it really shows that we have done good research and it just gives credibility to our work. I think we’ve all seen family histories or those biographies that don’t have any citations. And he doesn’t wonder where this information came from.
Diana (6m 17s):
And we all are wishing there was a citation there to something to help us know. So, so many good reasons to do Source Citations.
Nicole (6m 26s):
Yeah. That last one about giving credibility to your work is really important because unless you’re planning on not doing anything with what you’ve learned in your research, you’re going to want to have some kind of work product or output for what you find somewhere to put your conclusion. And a lot of people just put their conclusions into an online tree, and often there will be no citations association associated with that. And so that’s a problem because undocumented trees are not usually given as much weight or credibility. So if you want your work to seem credible, you do need to add those source citations. And if you’re planning on making anything outside of a family tree, like a report or some kind of document, then you’re going to want to have your citations ready to add to that document after you do your research.
Nicole (7m 16s):
And so the way that we do it is as soon as we look at a document, we save a citation in our notes, our research log. So where do we typically put our citations research logs, research notes, research reports, proof arguments. If we do presentations, then we add citations to our slides and our syllabus. And if we’re creating a family history book or a blog post, we will add citations to those charts and tables where we show census data. We add a citation to the bottom of that table and the lineage society applications. Those will need to have source citations as well. So if you will create a citation in your research log, as you research, you’ll be prepared to create all kinds of work samples like these, that you can then share with others, and it will show the credibility of your research.
Diana (8m 5s):
And when you listen to that list, it really brings home the fact that there are so many places we can put these. And I love to have that Source Citations in my research log so I can put it in those various places. So helpful. Now let’s just talk for a minute about source and Source Citations. A source is whatever gives you information. So usually we are using documents or books, microfilm articles. In some cases, we might use a photograph or we could use a sampler. We could use something that’s an actual object, like a medal from a war. So, so many different things that can be a source.
Diana (8m 46s):
And it’s important when we are writing and putting our information out there, that we have some kind of a citation that goes along with that, you know, in our online genealogy world. Now some of the websites give us a Source Citations and some of those are fairly good and we may want to tweak them a bit, but you may have a source in your genealogy drawer or in your files that you have to actually create your own source citation for. And so that’s why it’s so important just to understand the philosophy behind it and the different pieces. Here’s an example of a Source Citations from my Nancy Briscoe project. We’re actually going to use three examples from that project.
Diana (9m 27s):
And in my Nancy Briscoe project, I use maps, census records, county histories, her pension application, a birth register, a compiled service record, an online encyclopedia article, and Find a Grave. So you can see, I had quite a few different types of sources, but every single one of those in the final report has a citation that would show anybody exactly where I got that piece of information. One of the examples that we’ll use is her pension application. And this one was off of the Oklahoma digital Prairie website. And it did not come with the citation I had to actually create the citation.
Diana (10m 9s):
And this was a 10 to 12 page PDF with several documents included in it. So we’ll use this as an example, it’s a layered citation, and we’ll talk about that a little bit later on, but just want to make a note that after we have created our full citation in our reports, we don’t always want to use the entire full citation. So after we do the full citation once, then we can do a shortened form. And that is really helpful for this specific example because my citation was kind of lengthy for that application. Pensions can be lengthy. So here’s my full citation for that application.
Diana (10m 51s):
Nancy Frasier widow of Richard Frazier, application number 8 2 9 8 8, 1915 to 1924, pension number P 1 0 7 7 record group five, digital images, Confederate pension records, database, Oklahoma digital Prairie, and then the URL access 20 January, 2019 citing commissioner of Confederate pensions, Oklahoma state archives, Oklahoma department of libraries, Oklahoma city, Oklahoma. Okay. So that is on my screen about six lines long.
Diana (11m 31s):
That’s a long citation, but when I want to continue citing information from that, I’ve just shortened it greatly. I just now have for my short and citation, Nancy Frasier, widow of Richard Frazier. And then I give the specific application number. So I can take away all the publication information, because if anybody wants to know that they can go right back to that first citation. So it was just kind of a key thing to that. Once you cite it, you don’t have to continue citing the full.
Nicole (11m 58s):
Yeah, that’s really nice when you have finished your report and you can go back through and shorten some of the citations. And it’s not a good time to shorten your citations before you finished editing.
Diana (12m 9s):
Yes. Because you sometimes move your material around in that report. And it’s good to wait until the end.
Nicole (12m 16s):
All right. So Genealogy Standards names five elements that a citation should include. And Tom Jones elaborates on this, in his book, Mastering Genealogical Documentation. We can look at that book and kind of get some more details, if you’re interested. Let’s go through the five elements. The first one is Who, so who created the source? And often the creator of genealogical records that we use is a government or a religious entity, like a county or a parish. And if it’s a book, it’s the name of the author. And sometimes it’s the name of the informant if it’s a court document like some person’s deposition.
Nicole (12m 57s):
So you’ll see all different kinds of who created the source. And sometimes the who created the source is repeated in the citation again for the publication information. And if that’s the case, if the who created it and the publisher is the same, then you don’t need to repeat the name of the entity twice. So if you look at a Source Citations and you don’t see that the lead element is a Who then it’s probably because the Who created the sources repeated already in the citation as the publisher. So an example of the Who created the source for a book would be the author.
Nicole (13m 37s):
So in the county history example that Diana used in her report, the county history author was J A Sturges. And in a reference note citation, you do not start with the last name of the author. You just put their first name and then their last name. And if you’re doing a source list citation like a bibliography, then you put the author’s last name first. So just remember that for a reference note citations like footnotes and end notes that we typically are using for our reports and things that you can just put first name and last name. And then for a census, you will start off typically with 1850 census.
Nicole (14m 24s):
So you might be wondering who created the source. So Diana, what would you say to that?
Diana (14m 30s):
Well with the United States federal censuses you could be kind of redundant and you can say United States, federal government, 1850 U S census, but because that is such a well-known source, and we all understand that the United States federal government created the census we don’t need to put the who we can just simply put the 1850 US census. So there are some examples where we just have to use our common sense and think, okay, I don’t need to repeat this over and over. Another example is Find a Grave. So in a Find a Grave citation, Find a Grave creates it, but then there’ll be a Find a Grave memorial and sometimes you could list it three times in a citation and you just have to think, okay, do I really need to be so redundant and list this over and over again?
Diana (15m 18s):
So I really love Elizabeth Shown Mills’ quote, “Our citation is an art, not a science” because I think we have to look at our citations and think, okay, does this make sense? Do I need to repeat this over and over? Is, is it understood who created it or do I really need to spell it out?
Nicole (15m 34s):
Yeah. That’s a really good point to be able to eliminate redundancy as you see fit. So for the census, going back to that you’re right. I think it is really clear that the United States government created this census record. So we could lead off with United States government or United States of America, comma 1850 US census, but instead the who and the, what are kind of merged into 1850 US census.
Diana (16m 3s):
Right. So common sense, I think really works well for us when we’re doing our citations.
Nicole (16m 9s):
Yeah. I’m just making a template and not having to think about it ever again.
Diana (16m 13s):
Exactly. I love my citation templates. Once you’ve created that good citation, save it in your template and then just fill in the blanks every time you use that source. So we’ve talked about who created it now, let’s talk about What is the source. And this is where we describe the source. And in a census, this could be the specifics, you know, the 1830 census, the 1850 census, or it’s a marriage record, or it’s a letter. If it’s a book, then we do the entire title. So for our example of the county history for the Nancy Briscoe project, we had JA Surges identified as the Who as the author, and then after his name in italics, because it is published is the entire title Illustrated History of McDonald County, Missouri from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, and italics just signals to us that it is a publication.
Diana (17m 9s):
It’s so helpful when I am reviewing other citations. When I see that, because I realized this is a book I could go to a library, I could purchase this book, I could find this book somewhere. So really important to sort of understand when to use italics and when to use quotation marks. And I know that gets confusing and people think, why do I even have to bother? But just remember italics is for publications. Publications could be a newspaper, could be a magazine, could be a book, lots of different things that a publication could be that would be italicized. Now, sometimes we want to use quotation marks. And quotation marks are when we set off something that’s within a publication.
Diana (17m 54s):
So I just did this project where I used a lot of newspaper articles. So I would start off with the title of the little article and maybe it’s just obituary of your subject, or sometimes those old newspapers they’ve got really interesting titles, you know, a man run over by a horse, something like that. You put that in quotation marks and then after that you have the title of the newspaper, which is in italics because that’s the published part. Maybe you’ve got a chapter in a book that’s been published and you just want to cite that chapter, that goes in quotes and title of the book goes in, italics.
Diana (18m 33s):
Can be confusing, you just have to get a couple of these rules in your head. Now you might be using an unpublished narrative and the author has given it a title. I have some family histories where my great aunts titled it. And so I put that title in quotes and they are the creators of it so their name goes first and then their narrative in quotes. So when would you not use quotation marks in figuring out the What? Well, one of the things that we use a lot in genealogy are unpublished record books. So think of the marriage register in the town, or think of the deed book in the county.
Diana (19m 15s):
Those types of things are unpublished. They were standard books that were given to the counties and the county clerk filled in the information. So those would not need quotation marks. They’re not published. They’re just basically record books. There is an exception that Tom Jones makes in Mastering Genealogical Documentation on page 75 that I think is really interesting. And he says, when researchers have a reason to draw a reader’s attention to a title or something within it, like a title to a record within a pension file, we could put quotes around it. So say for instance, you’re using a pension file and there’s a special document in there and you want to really point out that you’re using this special document, like maybe an affidavit of a witness, you could put quotes around it.
Diana (20m 8s):
So it’s kind of makes me think that there’s an exception to every rule, right? Even in making citations.
Nicole (20m 14s):
That’s interesting. Yeah. I think it’s good to know the general principle that we don’t need to use quotation marks when we’re describing an unpublished record book, but that if we want to draw attention to a title, then go ahead. Now let’s go onto the next element the When. This refers to the question, when was the source created or when did the event occur? And sometimes you include both of those. Be specific: include the day, the month and the year if you can. For a book, this will be the date of publication. So that’s typically just a year. And then for a census, you don’t typically see the full date of the census put into the citation.
Nicole (20m 58s):
So it’ll just say 1850 US census.
Diana (21m 2s):
Right. And the When is usually a pretty easy one to discover, right? So I like that some of these are easy to figure out. So let’s talk about the Where Within is the information located? So think of that source, maybe it was a book, this is where you get to site the page number. Or if it’s a newspaper article, you would site the page of the newspaper. Sometimes the newspapers I even like to do the column and the paragraph, some of those old newspapers are so difficult to find things on and anything that can help us to figure out where in that source the information is can be great.
Diana (21m 43s):
So in a census, we typically do the household number, or if it’s before 1850, we can do the line number at the head of household. I like to, to err on the side of maybe adding too much information, because so many times I will see a citation that directs you to the collection and the name, but then there’s no image number. There’s no page number. And I really don’t want to scroll through 500 images trying to find that specific record. So we want to make sure we’re really nice and specific on this. Where within is the information located, looking at some of our examples that we’re using that county history book after I cited the title and the publication information, I have the page number, page 74, directing whoever’s reading this to that specific piece of information that I used from that book.
Diana (22m 35s):
Now, just to note, if I wanted to continue using information from that book, we could go back to that shortened citations idea and do a shortened citation, and then just keep changing the page number to whatever item of information I’m using. So when we do shortened citations, even if we’re pointing to a different page within that source, we can still use the shortened citation, which is really nice to know. Now in that pension application of Nancy Briscoe, as I mentioned, it is 10 pages long. And as in any pension, it has so much information. She states her marriage. She states a lot of information about her husband’s civil war service.
Diana (23m 18s):
So many little things that I can pull out of that for evidence of her life. And so I would want to make sure that I’m specifically citing a page number within that application, you know, page two of the application or page 10 of that application so that anyone trying to follow my footsteps, wouldn’t have to go through the entire thing, trying to figure out where I got that information from.
Nicole (23m 44s):
That’s good. The next element is Where in the World is the Source Located. This is usually going to be the publisher’s location or the URL or the location of the document if it’s unpublished. So for a book that’s really easy, you just need to put in the location of the publisher. So usually it’s the city and state where that publisher is from so that you can go find that publisher, if you need to and get a copy of that book. But typically you don’t need to do that because you can just look it up in a library, but that was, I think the intent. And then for a census, what you put in for that is the city, county, and township.
Nicole (24m 26s):
Usually you start off with the county and the state, and then you tell whether or not it’s a population schedule or not. And then you tell the township. So it’s good to look at some examples for the census, because there’s kind of a set way of how the census is cited. Since it’s such a popular source. For layered citations, you’re going to want to put the website that published that image and the URL, the website that published it as a lot of the elements, it’s the Who and who published it and Where to find it. So sometimes it seems a little repetitive, but you can put in the complete URL or you can put in the URL of the homepage and then the reader can use way points if you’ve used those or the other information in order to locate that specific page on the website.
Diana (25m 19s):
Right. You mentioned layered citations just a little bit. So let’s talk a little bit more about those. And we did do an entire episode on layered citations, so if any of you are new to the podcast and you’re interested in those, you can see episode 103 for an entire episode on layered citations. And we did that because so much of the material we’re using requires a layered citation. So let’s just talk a little bit about that on this episode. A layered citation is what you do when you have got a physical source, and I’m going to use this pension application and Nancy Briscoe for the example of it’s a physical application, but it’s been digitized and in, and now it’s available online. So we want to include both pieces of that.
Diana (26m 6s):
We have the physical part and then the digital part. And we use a semi-colon to signal the difference where one ends and one begins, think of this punctuation marks like the commas, separate pieces, and then the semi-colon separates the layers. And it’s just like reading a paragraph. Would you want to read a paragraph in a book with absolutely no punctuation? I’ve, I’ve read some books like that where it’s, you know, stream of consciousness and it’s so difficult to read and annoying. So think of your citation that same way. You’re trying to give your readers some help in putting in that punctuation. So let’s take apart that pension application, the first layer I decided to lead with the physical, and this is sometimes just up to you.
Diana (26m 56s):
Do you want to lead with the digital or lead with the physical, but I decided I wanted to start with the physical parts. So if I were to go to the Oklahoma state archives, I could use this portion of the citation to see the real paper copy. And so that’s the part that says Nancy Frasier widow of Richard Frazier gives the application number, the record group, the specific pension number, that’s all physical and that’s a semi-colon. And then after that I have the digital layer and I say digital images then in quotes, Confederate Pension Records database. And I put that in quotes because that is what the website has called this collection it’s given it a title so it goes into quotes, and then Oklahoma Digital Prairie is in italics, that is the publisher that’s the name of the website.
Diana (27m 50s):
Then in parentheses, I have got the URL and the access date. So I’ve got just the physical, just the digital and then I have a third layer on this, I’m starting to do this more and more where we cite exactly where that physical part came from. And I like to do it at the end because I just like it at the end. So I say citing Commissioner of Confederate Pensions, Oklahoma State Archives, and that it’s in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. So I tend to do three layers a lot. Sometimes my third layer is the Family History Library microfilm number, or sometimes it might be something like citing the National Archives, the UK, or just wherever this original stuff is coming from.
Nicole (28m 36s):
Wow. That was a great explanation of layered citations. And these are so important to do in our work. There are some other citation formats that I referred to earlier, so let’s go over those. The two main types that we use are reference notes and source list entries. And reference notes are the ones that we typically use in our family trees and in our research reports, because they can give evidence of a specific fact such as the date or place of an event. They could take us to a very specific page, a specific line that provides that piece of information. Whereas a source list entry is the information about the source in general, maybe about the book or a collection, but it doesn’t give a specific page number or detailed information about what we’re citing.
Nicole (29m 27s):
So a reference note is kind of the norm for our genealogical source citations when we’re citing a specific fact. So the examples we have used in this episode today have all been reference note citations. So we recommend that you use these as footnotes in your articles, your books, or your research reports. And some people also use them as end notes at the end of a chapter or an article or book, however, that introduces separation between the information and the source citation so we don’t recommend end notes for that reason, because if somebody copies one or two pages from your book, then they won’t have the citations that go along with those pages.
Nicole (30m 13s):
So we recommend footnotes at the bottom of each page and a source list entry is usually found at the end of a book or an article. It can sometimes be put at the beginning of a research report to let the client or the readers know which sources were consulted during this research session, you typically will arrange the source list entries in alphabetical order by the last name of the creator of that source, or just an order based on the creator’s name, if it’s a government entity.
Diana (30m 49s):
Right, and if you go to conferences or watch webinars, you’re often given a handout. So pay attention to the source list. At the end of those handouts, often the presenter will have a really nice list of everything that they’ve used or further sources to learn about and just kind of take a look and see how that is organized and it should be with the author’s name last and everything lined up alphabetically. So that’s one place that we see that a lot in our genealogy world are in those handouts. So let’s talk about where you create and record your source citation. Well, I’ve said this many, many times that our source citations live in our research log because it just makes sense.
Diana (31m 31s):
You are working through your research plan and you’re entering information into your research log. That’s where you can create your source citation. I will just tell you, when you go to write your report, you will be so happy that you already have that citation done. You’re in the middle of writing and you have the creative juices flowing. And the last thing you want to do is go find that source again and create the citation right then that’s not very fun. I love it when I’ve got everything ready to go, and I can just write, so create it in your research log. And then if you want to put it into your database, we get this question a lot. What do I do about all those templates in my genealogy database I’m using some program and I don’t want to use those.
Diana (32m 15s):
Well, sometimes you can use a free form template some databases will let you just copy and paste in free form what you’ve created. One of the workarounds that I’ve done is just to take half of my citation and put it in the title field and the other half of the author field, because I like to be in control of my citations. Using the templates is better than nothing, and I’m not going to say don’t do that, but I do like to be more in control. So I like to create mine in my research log and then put it into my database. I, I kind of had to be creative. And then of course, if you’re uploading documents that you might have in your files to your online trees, you’ll want to have a nice citation and you can just copy and paste from your research log straight to that online tree.
Diana (32m 58s):
And it will show anybody who sees that document exactly where it came from. And they’ll be so appreciative. I know I am. And I’m also very frustrated when I see great documents and I don’t know where they came from. That’s difficult. Then I just have to cite what I’m seeing, you know, on the tree, but so much better to have the original source. So we really encourage you all to start doing Source Citations. Even if it doesn’t sound very fun, you’ll feel so proud of yourself if you do.
Nicole (33m 25s):
And it will give you freedom to create wonderful work products, research reports, and articles and books that you can share with your family. Now, one note that I just thought of about creating Source Citations and sharing your document images online is that if you’re posting Bible pages up online, it would be great to include a Source Citations with that as well and one of the important things to include in those Bible pages is where that Bible has been since the author of that Bible family record created it because that can really be helpful information for understanding the source. And there’s different handwritings in that source, kind of figuring out who wrote that.
Nicole (34m 7s):
And I found a bunch of Bible pages online for a hypothesized ancestor from the 1700 who were actually Loyalists, who left North Carolina during the American Revolution and went down to the Bahamas. And so all of the births of the children were recorded on the islands down in The Bahamas and it was fascinating. And I just wanted a citation that told who had held this Bible, the provenance of the Bible, where it had been kept. And so when you’re adding those awesome special family records like that to your Ancestry trees, please include a citation and talk about the chain of possession.
Diana (34m 45s):
I totally agree with that. Some many things that think about.
Nicole (34m 48s):
And I’m so thankful for all of the Bible pages that people and families have shared online, because those are kind of a special record that are often kept privately by people at home, but they can provide so much insight into our really distant ancestors.
Diana (35m 5s):
Yes, they can prove our hypothesis or they can disprove our hypothesis, but either way, it’s good to know the truth about these family relationships.
Nicole (35m 17s):
All right, everyone, we hope that you learned something new about citations today and good luck going forward and creating clear citations. And we will talk to you again next week.
Diana (35m 25s):
All right. Bye bye everyone. Bye bye.
Nicole (36m 4s):
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