I keep all the sources, including personal knowledge, to stop me asking the same question again! However, to avoid confusion, I have made some clearly wrong Alt. Birth dates (for example) private so they don't print on reports I give family members, but are still accessible to me. I could make them accessible to other researchers if required by printing or exporting private events. (So far I don't have any events that are "confidential", other than those associated with living people which can be handled without the Private flag). Where the sources all agree but just get more specific (e.g. 1950's > abt 1954 > 1954 > May 1954 > 3 May 1954) I have one event with the most correct date and keep all the sources with their different Surety levels and Notes to explain any subtleties.
Cheers, Rob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paula Ryburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] question: Personal Knowledge as a Source
Thanks to everyone for their input. I do use Alt. events when the sources
conflict. And I do use notes to explain my logic. For example, I had 3-4
different sources on one ancestors middle initial. Yikes. I'm glad I kept
them all instead of wiping out one with the next one found.
Thanks again,
--Paula
----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 5:15 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] question: Personal Knowledge as a Source
You'll get a lot of different answers on this one.
My experience is it is best to keep ALL citations. Even the bad ones (with
appropriate notes, of course).
Folks seem to have two different styles.
One will cite just their current "best" evidence on something. It's easy to
see what they used, what how they came to the conclusion,and makes for neat
footnootes.
The other (and I'm firmly in this camp) documents everything they can get their paws on. Contradictory information, lesser cites, etc. It all goes into the pot. Messier, yes - but particularly where evidence is contradictory, keeping those "extras" around may prove useful. And I've found over the years that it is sometimes useful to know if I've already checked this reference or that on a particular fact.
Good hunting
Stan
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paula Ryburn Sent: Wednesday, 05 January, 2005 17:26 To: [email protected] 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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