Do you have a copy of the actual marriage license or do you have a
transcription someone has done of a marriage license? If I have a copy of the
marriage license itself I use that as a source even though I might have other
sources that contain the same information. If someone just sends me som
Hi Tim, if I have a copy of an original marriage record or marriage
bond (or one recorded by the court), I usually don't cite a more
derivative source for the same thing (e.g. an Ancestry database).
However, if I also have a pension record which shows the marriage date
and helps to (somewhat) indep
Tim:
I do like having several sources for facts, but there's a limit to what's
reasonable to include in source citations. If you have several sources for
the same data and all say the same thing, you might consider paring down to
just the one or two best. If I had an original document or a copy
Tim.
I would say, it depends. If you already have a source for the event,
especially a original source providing primary information, I would not. I
may use it if that report contained new information I didn't previously
have, and it didn't indicate the original source. If it did, I would enter
th
I have a similar question. One may for example have multiple secondary sources
for a piece of information, but no primary source. Multiple census records for
example might be used to calculate a birth year. Or they may or may not all
agree. Absent a birth certificate sometimes it is the sum of
Jan 2008 13:51:13 -0500
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> Hi Tim, if I have a copy of an original marriage record or marriage
> bond (or one recorded by the court), I usually don't cite
You can add as many sources as you want to any fact. Just go to the correct
souce location, and add the source.
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> I have a similar question. One may for example have multiple secondary
> sources for a piece of information, but no primary sourc
Hi Tim,
I add reports from others as a source if that's where I got the
information. I don't remove it when I get a primary source. I like to
acknowledge the path I've travelled and those who have helped me on the way.
If someone else shares with me the same information later, I don't
add it
of these are from totally different sources - birth certificate, death
certificate, census, newspaper article, etc.
Sharon Perdue
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