Yes, The document itself is original, however, the fact of her birth you would have to go by who supplied the data for the birth date to determine if it is Primary or Secondary evidence. If the provider of the info was not your grandmother or her parents then the data is not Primary source.
From: Paula Ryburn Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 6:17 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Source Quality questions I'm working on a very focused research project, just one question, and doing it the "right" way per two recent Legacy webinars & the Geneal. Stds. book, to test out some of the new v8 functionality--namely Source Quality analysis on the Source Detail citations. See how it works for this one person, then update the rest of my folks. Research question is "When was my grandmother born?" One document I have is the original Certificate of Registration of American Citizens, which lists my grandmother's birth date (among other things). When entering the citation for her birth date, I was puzzled on the first Source Quality item: Source - Original, Derivative, Authored or IDK. At first I put IDK, because this document is not her birth certificate--not the first documentation of her birth date, and it's not a derivative as Legacy describes it on the screen or "authored" either. Now I'm thinking I may have over-thought that. It IS the original (not even a photo copy) of this certificate--even if the purpose of this document/certificate is not to record her birth date (at least not only). So, I would indicate "original" in Legacy, right? Thanks! --Paula -- Russell G. Strong P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.legacyfamilytreestore.com/Articles.asp?ID=133&Click=1114 Oh so many branches and not enough time to check out all the roots!!!. Check out my Genealogy Pages at http://www.rgstrong-genes.com . Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
