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Reliability: These records are a secondary source. Verification of evidence is a must when using secondary sources, but verifying information from these records is difficult due to the lack of primary source documents. Older records are more subject to error. | Reliability: These records are a secondary source. Verification of evidence is a must when using secondary sources, but verifying information from these records is difficult due to the lack of primary source documents. Older records are more subject to error. | ||
Research use: Provide the results of previous research. Often provide information from record types, areas, and time periods where the original records are lost or unavailable and which the | Research use: Provide the results of previous research. Often provide information from record types, areas, and time periods where the original records are lost or unavailable and which the FamilySearch Library has not yet acquired and may never be able to acquire.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Japan,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1986-2001.</ref> | ||
=== How to obtain them === | === How to obtain them === | ||
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They are available in public and private collections throughout Japan. Large collections are still left in a number of prefectural archives. | They are available in public and private collections throughout Japan. Large collections are still left in a number of prefectural archives. | ||
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Many of these records have been microfilmed and are available at the | Many of these records have been microfilmed and are available at the FamilySearch Library. It is difficult to determine how many of these records still exist. The Library has about 1500 reels of compiled genealogies, family histories, and collected biographies. | ||
The | The FamilySearch Library has also acquired a majority of the standard genealogical works in books such as: | ||
*''Shinsen Shojiroku'' genealogies of 1,182 noble families compiled in the year 815 AD | *''Shinsen Shojiroku'' genealogies of 1,182 noble families compiled in the year 815 AD | ||
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