Occasionally I have found that tombstone dates are wrong, or conflict with other sources like obituaries which could also be wrong. I use tombstone photos as sources, but if there's a discrepancy in dates I'll put a note to reflect that.
I've found that in rare cases a person was reinterred into another cemetery and the date of the burial was on the tombstone rather than the original death date which was ten years earlier. A cemetery I used to work for had used the burial date for the death date for everyone before the year of 1898. It just shows that there are flaws in many types of sources since everything is prone to human error. ------- Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Photos as Sources-----Sources for Photos > Hmm! Isn't the source of a photograph just another term for a Repository? I was thinking the same thing. However, as to the OP's comment: > As for photos themselves being a source. I believe the concenus is > certainly. A photo of a tombstone for example serves as a source for > dates and names. Photos of tombstones that I take are not sources but merely my memorial of the source. No different that the cemetery survey notes that I write down while at the cemetery. It is the tombstone which is the source. On the other hand, photographs of tombstones taken by others are the source which I properly cite to the photographer using the Chicago Manual's style. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
