Fw: [LegacyUG] question: Personal Knowledge as a Source

[Gordon Small]

Hi Paula, I have that problem with a lot of dates. I keep all the citations 
in the database and select the one that's makes the most sense to me for the 
"Date" entry. I have as many as five or six sources for a lot of my entries. 
Later if I find more convincing documentation I at least know where I've 
been. And, Glen is right about the headstones not always being correct. I 
even have a picture of one headstone that has the person's name spelled 
wrong.

Gordon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paula Ryburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@mail.millenniacorp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] question: Personal Knowledge as a Source


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
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