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Standard entries include names, aliases, titles, ranks, lineage, generational information, and some dates and places. Some entries also include information on adoptions, feudal relationships, fiefs, heraldic devices, and biographical items. | Standard entries include names, aliases, titles, ranks, lineage, generational information, and some dates and places. Some entries also include information on adoptions, feudal relationships, fiefs, heraldic devices, and biographical items. | ||
Population coverage: Coverage is estimated at 5 to 10% of historical population from 1600-1867. The main emphasis of these records is on upper classes: feudal lords, aristocrats, samurai (retainers), Shinto priests, and the imperial line. | |||
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 Family History 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 === | ||