All,
I agree with Colette about the importance of source information and will
certainly
include as much source information as I have with future posts, having been
remiss
in not doing so earlier. At the same time, the lack of a "formal" source
should not
discourage anyone from posting to the list. As Colette implies, a source which
is
little more than "grandma told me" at least allows others to form an opinion
about the information and may even instigate another lister to contribute a
more
concrete source to the benefit of all.
There is an excellent paperback book by Richard Lackey titled "Cite Your
Sources"
(A manual for documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records),
University
Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi: 1980 that sets a high standard for
source
citation. It was an eye-opener for me.
At 09:28 PM 3/19/99 -0600, you wrote:
Hello all,
When we share info on our Carles, can we make an effort to include general
source info?
For general postings of lineages from gedcoms or books or whatever,
we could say "from Gedcom #XXXX, at
www.ancestry.com" or "from
the book Descendants of New Jersey Carles, by John Doe." Similarly,
if someone were to post, say, a list of marriage records from a CD,
he or she could cite the name and number of the CD.
For information from our own research, I realize it takes a great deal of
time to type in all details of the sources, but if we can at least
say "death certificate" or "letter from her daughter" or even
"grandma told
me" it gives us some idea of where we can verify information. Interested
researchers can then exchange more detailed information off-list, if need be,
to verify or to resolve conflicts of information.
For example--earlier a list of descendents of Ephraim Carle of Somerset
Co., NJ, was posted, which had many errors--e.g., a date of birth
for his son Joseph of 1767, which is clearly in error as Joseph was
of legal age, signing a deed on 23 April 1779--which his wife also
signed, so he was married by then as well. (src: deed from Joseph
Carle to Henry Veghte, 23 April 1779, Somerset Co., NJ)
There also were a few things slightly off in the recently posted info on
Daniel Webster Carle, such as a few missing children which may not
have been in the earlier poster's files. A more significant problem,
though, was a death date of December 14, 1865 for Libby's father, William
Ross Carle. Research shows that he died October 5, 1855 (src: gravestone,
Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Belmont Co. OH, obituary, and estate administration
papers).
I've tried here to give sources for the information I am submitting so that
other researchers on those lines can see why I have made the conclusions
I have. It would be helpful if we could all do that whenever possible.
We're lucky to have a list like this to share info (thanks, Karl!) so
lets make sure that the data we share is as accurate as possible,
which is best done by including sources.
Thanks for your consideration,
Colette
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