Elephind allows searchers to search thousands of free online digital newspapers at once. We’re periodically featuring “old” sites that users may have forgotten about or not have been aware of.
Any source can have information from a variety of informants whose knowledge of that information can vary. A death certificate for an eighty-year old woman may have a son-in-law for the informant. His knowledge of the mother-in-law’s date and place of death may be very accurate (that information would be primary information). His knowledge of his mother-in-law’s parents and date and place of birth would be secondary (he wasn’t there when she was born and may never have met either of her parents). Always think about each piece of information on a document as having a potential different level of accuracy. All information is not created equally–not even from the same informant on the same document.
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