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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Source Surety Values
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 13:34:14 -0500


Hugh Wilding wrote:
>I'm agreeing with all of this but at the same time beginning to feel a
>little uneasy. I use surety levels thus:
>
>3 Primary/contemporary document
>2 Good secondary source
>1 Unproven/dubious secondary source
>0 Hearsay/assumption
>- Known to be erroneous

This is close to what I use except that I include hearsay (at least what I
might consider the more reliable kind -- what ever that is <g>) in the 1
level. I restrict the 0 level for pure assumptions, estimates, guesses,
WAGs, etc. Mostly these are my guesses, but they may be a consensus of a
number of people researching the same family.

As I said, one set of definition to a customer -- all different. <g>


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