TMG-L Archives

Archiver > TMG > 1999-11 > 0943827696


From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Sources
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 17:21:36 -0500


Lee Hoffman/KY wrote:
>
> It is recommended that you do not cite the source that they give UNLESS
> _YOU_ HAVE SEEN THAT SOURCE. Keep in mind that some day you may look back
> (long after you have fogotten the details of where you got the data) and
> want to verify something. If you have their source cited, you may
> mis-remember and think that since you've already looked at that source, you
> don't need to look at it again. >

The above recommendation is the ultimate way to go but in many cases I
find it too precise. If a fellow researcher that I feel does good work
and I trust, looks at a vital record and gives me the information I
often put in the original source with a note in the CD as to where it
came from. The other researcher is no more likely than I to make a
transcribing error, perhaps less so.

If I find a discrepency now or later I would probably go back to the
original record to check.

If someone gets a record from the PRO in England, I doubt that I will go
to england and check the record, if I can see it at all.

You have to give a surety to those who give you information as well as
books, vital records, censuses etc.

bob gillis

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TMG-L The Internet Mailing List for The Master Genealogist
To unsubscribe: Send an e-mail to with 'UNSUBSCRIBE TMG-L'
or... if you get the digest version: 'UNSUBSCRIBE TMG-L-DIGEST'
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This thread: