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From: "DeAnna Burghart" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] "disproved" citations?
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:12:54 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20060704134639.2990.qmail@web53115.mail.yahoo.com>


The best advice I can give, Alison, is to give yourself an hour or two, go
to a good genealogy library, and browse the articles in a few issues of
genealogy magazines you want to emulate. (I like NGS Quarterly -- my mom
always said I had more ambition than anyone she knows.) Review the footnotes
and citations and see how they handle it. For instance, ages reported in a
census are often referenced as part of a single, cumulative footnote on a
person's estimated birth year. Varying dates of immigration or countries of
origin might be treated similarly, with the text stating the proposed
"truth" and the footnote expositing various citations and references and
assessments of their accuracy.

More and more, I'm finding that the best approach for me is to have a few
good magazines on hand and review them when I come across something I want
to do well and don't know how. Imitation, flattery, etc. ;)

DeAnna

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DeAnna Burghart
TMG Shortcuts, Variables and Report Cheat Sheets (Word and PDF)
http://members.cox.net/danieleb765/genealogy/


-----Original Message-----
From: Alison Schubert [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 6:47 AM
To:
Subject: [TMG] "disproved" citations?


As I've been entering census records I've recorded a few facts, such as
immigration, in separate tags to make for easy research reminders. Now I've
started to get some more adequate documentation so I'm fairly confident
these different dates are just part of the census being close, but not quite
right. What I don't know is should I suppress these old immigration tags
and leave them, along with there sources, move the sources to what I'm
convinced is the most accurate date I'm likely to find and mark the moved
citations as disproven (and maybe even exclude them), or just delete these
citations and tag?

I'm relatively new to both TMG and well documented genealogy so I'm curious
if there is a standard practice, or even just to see what method others use.

Alison


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