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Determining If a Source is Relevant (view source)
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'''Minor discrepancies''' do not prevent a match, and are to be expected. But it is a genealogist's responsibility to acknowledge and explain [[Contradictions and discrepancies|discrepancies and contradictory evidence]]. | '''Minor discrepancies''' do not prevent a match, and are to be expected. But it is a genealogist's responsibility to acknowledge and explain [[Contradictions and discrepancies|discrepancies and contradictory evidence]]. | ||
'''Preliminary follow up.''' Once you decide to accept a new source a relevant or not, explain your decision on your [[Research Logs|research log]]. If the source seems possibly relevant, photocopy the document, and add the new information from the new source as new event(s) on the ancestor's family group record. Be sure to add a source citation footnote for each event. In the footnote add a short preliminary evaluation of the source. File the source photocopy and updated family group record in their correct places. | '''Preliminary follow up.''' Once you decide to accept a new source a relevant or not, explain your decision on your [[Research Logs|research log]]. If the source seems possibly relevant, [[Copying_Sources|photocopy the document]], and add the new information from the new source as [[Adding_a_Custom_Event_to_a_PAF_Family_Group_Record|new event(s) on the ancestor's family group record]]. Be sure to add a [[Cite_Your_Sources_(Source_Footnotes)|source citation footnote]] for each event. In the footnote add a short preliminary evaluation of the source. [[Document_AS_YOU_GO!|File the source photocopy and updated family group record]] in their correct places. | ||
'''Later final analysis.''' Later, after you have thoroughly researched all the parents, siblings, and children of the ancestor, it is important to reconsider your preliminary acceptance of a source as relevant. When almost all that can be gathered about the family is assembled, correlated, corroborated, and analyzed in its totality, you are in a better position to make a final judgment about the relevance of an individual source. | '''Later final analysis.''' Later, after you have [[Genealogical_Proof_Standard|thoroughly researched]] all the parents, siblings, and children of the ancestor, it is important to reconsider your preliminary acceptance of a source as relevant. When almost all that can be gathered about the family is assembled, correlated, corroborated, and analyzed in its totality, you are in a better position to make a final judgment about the relevance of an individual source. | ||
[[Category:Research_Analysis]] | [[Category:Research_Analysis]] | ||