Hi all,
I've been meaning to ask this question for a while, but... you know how it
goes.
Say I have a death date put in for my mother's aunt based on Mom's personal
knowledge (she and her mom attended the funeral). I have Mom as the source,
enter the date and place, and have some notes, too.
THEN my parents do cemetery visits for me and find this aunt's gravestone.
For death date, I update with the month and day from the gravestone. I have
added the Cemetery as a Source for death date - for the Burial information,
too, of course.
My question: I have kept both source citations. Is that what everyone else
does? Or do you remove the older, less-specific one?
I have further examples, based on census data, where the date is fleshed out
in several subsequent sources. Do I keep them all cited? Or just the
definitive one?
Thanks in advance, --Paula
Paula,
I keep everything and assign new information as "Alt" events along with the source material that supports it. When I do determine which piece of conflicting data is probably most accurate, I move it to the primary event with a note rationalizing my thinking. Whether we are genealogists or family historians, our real addiction is research and we do need to be methodical about it.
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