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From: "Chuck Wolfram" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Source standards -- was Mills Source for Memorial?
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:59:50 -0400
References: <3D49A4FF.B05928B9@reigelridge.com>


Terry Reigel <> wrote:

>> Cliff Soderback wrote:
>
> > <SNIP> I really don't think either one of them implied
> > that
> > the source should be Aunt Martha's diary, with the repository as her top
> > dresser drawer.
>
> I don't have Lackey's book, but Mills certainly did. Look at the example
for Bible Record, pg 65 - note that
> the example is privately held.

I do have Lackey's book, and under Bible Record here are a few quotes: "The
fact that most Bible records are in private hands increases the danger of
such records being lost or unavailable to future researchers." (CITE, p. 64)
The citation examples imply that you should describe the condition of the
record precisely. The second example on p. 65, where his source is a family
Bible, includes this "Location of the original Bible remains unknown after
inquiry; a notation...This Bible was printed in Edinburgh...in 1806,...(he
describes the history of the missing Bible and also describes what it looked
like, mentions a handwritten copy of the family entries made in 1924 of
which he has a photocopy. It's a long cite.<g>)
He doesn't require that you state it is "in the top dresser drawer" but
at least the person who holds it with their address.<g>

Chuck Wolfram



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