During the lessons you have been introduced to a method of building a time line of information directly into the general notes area of your program. For example, if you had a military event that occurred in 1930 you could enter notes in your general notes area in chronological order to appear as: 1930 MILITARY. If the information in the military record was being used to prove a death year, you could enter it as 1930 DEATH.

Perhaps you have learned the locality of information regarding a military record that you want to list in your notes. It could be entered in your general notes field as:

1930 MILITARY HISTORY: Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking. The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches (Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1988), 88.

Perhaps you have located an ancestor in a published book of abstracted military records. Here is the proper way to cite that entry:

This is how a footnoted citation would look:

1. Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774, 574.

This is how a bibliographic citation would look:

Clark, Murtie June. Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1986.

This is an example of what an abstract of the information on the people in the book would look like:

Virginia Council Land Grants 1745-1769, Nov 1769 cont.: A list of names of all the grantees in the above mentioned orders: Thomas Bassett, Nath:l Bassett, Tho:s Bassett, Jun:r, Tho:s Tinsley, Corn:s Tinsley, Peter, John and Tho:s Elmere … Ibid, pg. 496: Proceedings of a Council of Officers held at Fort Loudoun, April 24, 1758: Officers present, Col. George Washington, President … Letter from Lieut Thomas Basset to [George Washington], Fort Frederick, 27 April 1758.

For the time being, the easiest thing to do would be to place your citation in chronological order as you enter it, rather than depending on the program to do that for you.

On the next page are several military Web sites for you to experiment with.