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From: Linda Lawhon <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Question re Personal Knowledge Source
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:53:48 -0500
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Dave Flower said:
>What source category did you use as a basis for your PERSONAL
>KNOWLEDGE under E. S. Mills?
>>
>> I based it upon the interview

Interview. You do not *have* to change the fields. You could use
the ones in the Interview Template.

The full footnote sentence fields for Interview are:
Interview with [INFORMANT] ([INFORMANT ADDRESS])<, by
[INTERVIEWER]><, [INTERVIEW DATE]>. [REPOSITORY] ([REPOSITORY
ADDRESS])<. [COMMENTS]><, [CD]>.

You could change that to read:

Personal knowledge of [INFORMANT] ([INFORMANT ADDRESS])<, by
[INTERVIEWER]><, [INTERVIEW DATE]>. [REPOSITORY] ([REPOSITORY
ADDRESS])<. [COMMENTS]><, [CD]>.

If I were to do this I would also put the Repository and Repository
Address in < >. When I use this source -- the repository is my mind
-- or what is left of it.

If I am using this *source* -- it means it is something I know
because I witnessed it. For example, if I wrote that my youngest son
had a birthmark in a certain location on his body, I would put
personal knowledge because I have seen it. I guess I *could* take a
picture of it but that is more detail than I wish to deal
with. :-) In the Citation Detail I might chose to describe the
birthmark -- shape, color, location.

I am using the personal knowledge of another person -- then I stick
pretty much to the given template. Then it would read:

[INFORMANT] Interview with Some Person
([INFORMANT ADDRESS]) address at time of interview
<, by [INTERVIEWER]><, [INTERVIEW DATE]>. by Linda Lawhon, 1972
[REPOSITORY] ([REPOSITORY ADDRESS]) Personal records of Dwain & Linda
Lawhon, Richardson, Texas.
<. [COMMENTS]> This interview took place on a visit to XXXXX. It is
recorded on tape dated XXXXXX.
<, [CD]>. Nana stated that So & So was called "Bude."

Interview with Some Person, address at time of interview, by Linda
Lawhon, 1972. Personal records of Dwain & Linda Lawhon, Richardson,
Texas. This interview took place on a visit to XXXXX. It is recorded
on tape dated XXXXXX. Nana stated that So & So was called "Bude."

Linda




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