Cite the secondary account, then In the detail add "citing whatever primary source is."
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk>wrote: > On 21/06/2012 12:00, Barbara wrote: > > When you receive information from a well-documented source for a whole > > family line, should you use that source or should you use the original > > source? I know Jeff always says when you site a FHL census source, that > > it is really from the Nat. Archives. Thus, if I follow that, I should > > use the original source, even though I may not have seen it. > > You should not cite a Source you have not actually seen yourself. How > do you know it's true? The best you can says is "Joe Bloggs says ..." > and add what information you can to indicate how reliable Joe Bloggs's > information is liable to be. For example, you might cite an e-mail > where Joe Bloggs tells you he visited a Record Office the day before and > looked at a Parish Register or you might have Joe Bloggs's diary where > he said he attended Fanny Adams's 100th birthday on 2 September 1977. > Or you might have Joe Bloggs's Family Tree with all his Sources fully > documented. > > In each of those cases, your source is the e-mail, the diary or the Tree > because that is what you have seen. You know they are real and > hopefully your recording of them is accurate. You don't know for sure > the information in them is true until you have gone back to the original > Sources or some other proof yourself. > > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
