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Subject: Re: Re: [TMG] sourcing false information
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 8:30:54 -0500
Elizabeth,
That's why I want to source everything I looked at. If a later source does show up, I want to be able to say that I did not have it available when I made that assumption.
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> From: Elizabeth Churchett <>
> Date: 2004/03/31 Wed PM 08:10:01 EST
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> Subject: Re: [TMG] sourcing false information
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> wrote:
> I do attach the sources that have been searched, and I make sure to
> indicate in the citation detail (CD) when the records were searched and
> by whom.
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> Re your example above, I would be a little uncomfortable saying
> definitively that he died intestate, which is why I worded my ...NF Tags
> the way I did. Who's not to say that in a couple of years some
> overlooked wills might be found in a box in some clerk's office
> somewhere? Or that something was accidentally omitted from the
> microfilms or the indices to them? Or even, as in the case of my
> great-grandfather, that for some reason you are currently unaware of he
> filed his will in a different county that you didn't check (his was
> filed where his son lived in Texas, not where he lived in Ohio)? That's
> perhaps a slightly extreme position, but nevertheless a valid one . . .
>
> --Elizabeth
> Austin, Texas
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