Nick Ingham wrote
>I have been
>studying the brilliant ‘Evidence Explained’ by Elizabeth Shown
>Mills and, in accordance with Ms Mills’ suggestions, I would like
>to be able to attach a short ‘credibility analysis’ each time I
>extract a particular piece of information from my sources – basically
>to identify:-
>
>(i)
>whether the data’s source is an
>original or derivative,
>
>(ii)
>whether the information itself
>is from a primary or secondary informant, and
>
>(iii)
>whether that information is
>represents direct or indirect evidence of the date, name, place, event
>or circumstance I am trying to prove.
>
>It strikes me that
>this sort of analysis really ought to be attached to the specific data
>somehow, each time I extract a piece of information from the source,
>but I am not sure how to do so.
>
>I would appreciate
>any guidance members of the list might be able to provide as to how,
>and where, this type of analysis is best entered in Legacy.
I've never bothered to go to that much trouble myself. I look at a
Source and I just know how much value I place on it.
You can, of course, easily indicate in Legacy if you have Verified a
Source. ("Verified" might mean different things to different people.)
And you can also assign a Surety Level value to each Citation. However,
if you really want to go into as much detail as ESM seems to suggest, I
think you will need to use the Comments field, either at Master or
Detail level.
At the moment - I'm not sure if it will be changed in future updates -
there are some Templates where it is not possible to exclude the Master
Source Comments from Reports. This may or may not be a disadvantage to
you. I think Master Source Text fields are fully excludable.
--
Jenny M Benson
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