An event has a date, as an obituary does and is occurrence, even if it is after
the death of a person, and I list as an event and a source also. I put the text
of the obit in Notes of the event, and the name of the newspaper in the details
(if I have it), the date of course in the date field for the event. I too, have
some of those obituaries (found in Grandma's Picture Box) that have been carefully
clipped out of the newspaper, without the name of the newspaper, but have the
clipping. I can pin down the County usually, and sometimes at the end of the
obituary, they will state something like, the "The News joins the family in it's
sorrow." Now I have the name of the paper, and knowing the county can usually
find where it was published. Sometimes, I know the newspaper, so know where it is
published. Course, I'm talking about some small town newspapers, in an area I've
worked in awhile.
I view my work a little differently than others I guess, and my home library is a
repository, which of course include my files. When I share a printing of a group
of families, I want the person to know where I got the information and be able to
trace it, but I also want them to know what the record, or what ever, said, and
put that in notes. That way if they question my notes or abstracts, they can
check the original source. As to information on the Web, while I will source a
web site as where I got the information, I also keep printed copies of the
information in the family file or files.
I am doing my genealogy for my family, not for a scientific community, and while I
want it to be correct, I don't think that I will be any less correct, for doing
this the way it pleases me. Just my opinion, but it's my time and my money, and
my family, so.....<bg>
Carolyn,
just an old Texas Gal.
Researching:
Knight/Byles/Walton/Espy/Smith/Little/Marshall/
Waters/Garner/Martin/Foote/Berryman/Colclough/
Rogers/Grigsby/Blanton/Tate/McGuffey/Hobbs/
Schuenemann/Latinsky/Altman/Gambel/Sinz & Gross
WebSite: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cgetting/
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Debora
> Prytula
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:13 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituaries -- Sources vs events
>
>
> I agree that an obituary, the document itself, is a source and not an
> event. However, the
> appearance of the obituary in the paper *is* an event. I have several
> obituaries listed as sources.
> I also have them listed as an event for the person it is about. That
> way, I know I have an obit.
> for that person without having to check the Sources (especially
> considering how I have my obit.
> Sources set up). This way, I can run a Search on the Event Name
> "Obituary" and get a handy-dandy
> list of those for whom I have an obit. The only place I have the text
> of the obit. is in the
> Details - Text section of the Source.
>
> Just my method. :)
> Deb
>
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