Timeline for How should I deal with conflicting information?
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| Oct 23, 2012 at 22:01 | comment | added | Justin808 | @AdrianB38 - I was referring to the number of newspaper sources, i.e. two different newspapers report the same fact. Not that 2 newspapers would be a single source for a fact. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 21:42 | comment | added | AdrianB38 | It's not so much the number of sources as the number of independent sources. Two newspapers can be only one source if one copied the first. (Or to take another example, 50 copied family trees containing a 70y old woman giving birth aren't more persuasive than 1 tree with original research). | |
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| Oct 10, 2012 at 0:03 | comment | added | GeneJ | @Justin808, I think your answer would be better without the reference to the number of "matches." | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 23:06 | history | edited | Justin808 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a note about software supporting this
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| Oct 9, 2012 at 22:59 | comment | added | efgen | Some family tree programs also allow multiple entries for the same fact, plus allow you to choose one as the primary. I've done this in Family Tree Maker for my great-grandmother's birthdate -- I don't have a birth certificate for her, and other records show varied birthdates. So I've entered them all as alternate birthdate facts and sourced each one appropriately. | |
| Oct 9, 2012 at 22:53 | history | answered | Justin808 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |