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From: Terry Reigel <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Questionable Source Cites
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 13:57:07 -0400
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Rae Jean wrote:

> Terry
> Please give one or two examples of the information you include in [Comments]
> when there are no sources.

Rae Jean --

I use this method when the source information, such as it is, is not specific or not linked to specific facts.

One of the better ones, about an e-mail that covered a branch of my mother's family:

"based on correspondence from three members of Larry David Glabe's family in 1972 and 1979"

More often it's something like:

"(name) said in a telephone call (or e-mail) (date) that the information is mostly from the work of his late
father"

And, as has been noted by others in this thread, it's mostly:

"In a telephone call (or e-mail), she said she was uncertain of the sources of her information"

I tend to record this latter kind, mostly when it's about people I've never seen posted to the web before, on
the grounds that if the information isn't all over the web, probably most if it's based on something even if I
don't know what, and it gives me some a place to start. In the meantime, the source citation tells me about the
quality of the source, or lack thereof.

An example is a WorldConnect file I just found that shows a line that intermarried with my wife's
gg-grandfather (second marriage) and also his daughter . It shows some dates I didn't have for them, and lots
of connecting people I didn't have. I was able to verify some of the information with census records, and found
some was wrong (like children shown born in the wrong place) but basically it seems right. I haven't gotten a
response to my e-mails to the author, who is in Germany. But it's clear that he has some names and dates,
probably from family records of some sort, on the relatives that immigrated to the US.

Terry

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