Cathy,
I have set up a Personal Knowledge - name of relative source for each of
the relatives who have given me information. (and I have one for me!) When I
cite the person, I put the date and type of communication in the detail.
email, interview, phone call, letter, questionnaire, etc.
Cathy,
I have covered these cases with a general Master Source:
Source List Name: Personal Knowledge
Title: My personal knowledge or undocumented and unverified family
lore.
If there is more I think I should say of this for a particular citation,
I will expand on it in the Detail
Anyone have a thought on when to use Personal Knowledge and when
to use Interview? My parents, aunts and uncles told me a lot of
information about their large family (Mom, Dad and 10 children who
all lived well into adulthood). I did not write a transcript of
the discussions but did enter
Cathy,
I only enter as personal knowlege that which I know as a matter of fact and
which, therefore, happened in my life time. Everything else I regard as family
folklore and include it in notes for that person.
This family folklore may, or may not, be true, but if I cannot prove this then
I have used personal knowledge for various facts that I would not actually
qualify as an interview. i.e. chatting with family at a reunion, wedding,
funeral or another get together. I do sub-divided them up a bit into spouse,
sibling, child, subject, and parent and have never used a name as the
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