I absolutely agree with them being considered as "Artifacts, privately held". The keys words to all of these documents are "commemorative" and "in my possession". Otherwise, where would any other researcher now or in the future go to see these documents. The answer is only to the original poster of the question.
And yes, I'll also be the first to admit that many people blur the lines between "commemorative" and "official". I've seen many supposed birth certificates from researchers that are in effect only the commemorative certificate issued by the hospital and not the official record of birth recorded by the local government agency. The same applies to those marriage certificates that are freely handed out by ministers. But then as I grow older and more forgiving, I have to ask myself, what is the difference? If a person records one of these commemorative certificates as an official document but adds notes something to the effect that it was issued by the hospital, or minister, and is in their possession, that seems close enough for me. At least the dates and locations are correct and those would be a good pointer for looking for any official documents if so desired. Yeah, I know --- I'll take a lot of heat for this. So what. One has to be thick skinned to be on the LUG anyhow. :-) Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Gene Young [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Questions regarding Source Type On 2/15/2013 1:24 PM, Sentz wrote: > Okay, I'll run the following up the flag pole again, since no one > responded a while ago. > How should one record the following in Legacy using the Source Writer. > I was trying to understand how to classify types of documents/data and > find the appropriate source type using the "What kind of source" data > field. > A child received "The Blessing of Little Children" rather than being > Christened or baptized as an infant. The name of the child, parents, > birthdate, church and date of blessing along with the names of the > officiating ministers are recorded in a commemorative card/pamphlet > that was given to the parents. Didn't see anything that was > appropriate in the big list of source types. Would this be a generic source? > The parents of a child received a certificate of birth from the > hospital. This is supposedly a commemorative document and not > considered the legal birth certificate from the state of residence. > What type of document would this be considered? generic or birth > record at the local/county level? > The newlyweds received a Certificate of Marriage from the officiating > minister. Again, this is not a marriage license, but a commemorative > document/pamphlet. It cites the names of those married, the location > (city & state, not the church, although the name of the church is > known), date of the ceremony, witnesses and the officiating minister. > It is not known whether the church recorded the marriage in 1945. > Again, is this considered a generic document? I did not see anything > that looked like a match in the type of source lists. > What about the little funeral service card...would this be considered > a funeral announcements, artifact-privately held? or would this also > be considered generic? > Since I am in possession of all of the above, would they be considered > part of my personal repository, or would they be assigned to the > organization the issued the document? Artifacts > privately held, then fill in the blanks, noting that you do NOT have to fill in every blank -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm 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 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
