Sources are documents, registers, publications, artefacts, people, websites and other sources of information used in genealogy and family history research.
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Data Model for Family Tree Maker 2012 (sources and source citations)
I have been asked to document an explanation of how Family Tree Maker 2012 links sources, source citations, media and 'facts', to assist somebody who is very visually/structure oriented to describe to ...
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World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1 - valid source?
In searching for an ancestor I googled and found ancestry.com trees. On those trees I found citations to 'World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1'. Is this a valid secondary source or is this just effectively ...
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What steps should I take to retrieve lost sources?
I've lost my sources for an individual. Either I never wrote it down or it's been lost by my software (probably the former).
I realized this when I came back to this individual the other day and saw ...
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Conflict between Kent Online Parish Records and FamilySearch.org database - which to believe?
I have an ancestor, William Vollins or Vallins, who I believe was the son of Richard Vollins and Mary (Bowler), b 1777 in St Mary Cray, Kent (near Orpington). There are many other Vollins/Vallins ...
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How do I Cite Genealogy Sources and References in a Book?
I am writing a book (a biography) about an ancestor with material from many sources (newspaper archives, interviews, national libraries and other books).
My question is specific to the genealogy ...
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Cornish parish records lost in fire?
I have a brickwall in the form of my great great grandfather whom I know from our family bible was born in Cornwall in 1811. I've found him (Robert Chapman and his wife Elizabeth nee Shapling and ...
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Citing sources from Facebook and other social media sites
Today I had reason to cite Facebook as a reference source. I couldn't find any recommendations for such sources, so I'll describe what I did. If anyone has a better method I'd be pleased to hear about ...
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Finding Expanded Royal Family Lineages
While aggregating some genealogy data for my family, I recently came across something that has my daughters and I pretty excited. It would seem that, on my wife's side, there is a traceable lineage ...
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How should I cite a microfiche source at The (UK) National Archives?
In my research, I have consulted the "Women's Land Army: Index to Service Records of the Second World War" held on microfiche at The (UK) National Archives (MAF421), as described here.
Consulting ...
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Determining branch of service for someone drafted into World War I
Is there a online source to help determine which branch of service someone was drafted into for World War I? I found my grandfather's WWI draft card on Ancestry.com but wasn't able to find any ...
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What source detail should I include for a digital book?
I use the following to record my digital book sources. Should I include anything else?
Author
Editor
Title
Publication Place
Publisher
Publisher Year
Page
Format
Website URL
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What source details should I include for a printed book?
I use the following to record my printed book sources. Should I include anything else?
Author
Title
Edition
Publisher and Location
Year of Publication
Page
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How should I record my sources correctly?
I have not understood the need for recording where I obtained my information. Reading answers here has made me rethink. I would like to start my family tree again, this time recording the source for ...
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What type of source is a Family Bible?
Given that many families have old Family Bibles with births, deaths, and marriages recorded in them (some of which may predate formal records of the same from the local jurisdictions, or which ...
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Is there an automatic way to import a source from Ancestry or FamilySearch into gramps?
I've been using ancestry.com for a couple of years online, and recently got their desktop software to help manage trees better. One of the reasons I had created my trees online was the ease of ...
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Is a Birth/Marriage/Death Certificate a primary source?
Do I accept a Certified Document as a primary source and trust it outright or do I need to view the original the Document is transcribed from?
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Which popular sources to avoid? [closed]
How to convince family members that using shared online trees as sources may only introduce them to errors. Almost anyone can add misinformation to them.
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How should I record unsuccessful searches (that may constitute negative evidence)?
What's the right way to record the fact that I have performed a search in a certain dataset and came up empty handed?
As an example:
I search for Person X in the New Hampshire Marriages index on ...
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Where can I find more information on Danish 16th century priests?
My family is from Gotland, and in my family tree I have two priests who moved in from Denmark(*). Since Gotland nowadays is Swedish and these men are from Denmark I'm stuck, I know nothing about how ...
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Is Tanguay's “Dictionnaire Genealogique” considered to be reliable?
Fr. Cyprien Tanguay's Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours (Montréal: Eusèbe Senécal, 1871-1890) covers many of my French-Canadian ...
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Why do historical and genealogical scholars differ in their approach to classifying sources?
Historical scholars classify sources as "primary" or "secondary."
Princeton University, "What is a primary source"
Library and Archives Canada, "Toolkit: Defining Primary and Secondary Sources"
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What is an effective way to annotate a photo?
I have old family photos, some with info written on the back or on a bit of paper included behind the photo in a frame (e.g. date, event description, and/or people in the photo).
What's an effective ...
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Alternate German genealogy sources
I've hit a roadblock, as mentioned here. I've found German church records from the middle eighteenth century (1760's) that contain info. The location is around Marbach am Nectar (also spelled ...
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What do I do to find a Utah ancestor's parents when I have exhausted BMD records, Ancestry.com and newspapers
Though his known life history is quite lurid, I have spent 35 years searching for the parents of my great-grandfather. He was first married in Salt Lake City in 1884, divorced while in prison, ...
