Exactly. I don't consider most of those other things you listed as sources
for my birth, because at root they are all either derivitives of the birth
certificate or on the honor system. I would consider a diary entry or letter
from my mother, photographs, or something else generated at that time as a
primary source for *that* event. Hence my question about not entering a
person into the database without *three* sources for the event. The OP
specifically said three sources for "event", not three sources indicating
the existance of the person.
Gary
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From: "Daniel Hinckley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing Question
Gary, are you sure you're you? can you prove it? Some sources are
dependent on other sources in real life. How did we get driver's licenses?
Birth certificate as proof, maybe? A bill from the power company with our
name and address on it? How did we get that? Show our driver's license? or
just tell the power co. where to send the bill. Library card? Pu-leese.
And should I show them my original social security card from 196... um,
hum, from earlier in the last century, my signature has changed a lot
since I was a teen... er, baby. And when babies, speaking of which, get a
SS# at birth, who is the authority for the name? Parents. Do they have to
show "proof"? "'Tis a tangled web we're woven in, Once we practice to I D
ourselves.
Gary Templeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think I can be
that stringent. Heck, I don't think I have three
independent sources for MY birth.
Gary
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