Genealogists cite Bibles for family history records. Now I’m citing a dictionary, but it’s not for a definition of a word. It’s for my Mom’s college address. I’ll probably cite it in a similar fashion to how one cites family Bibles, but there’ll be some twists. It’s “Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary,” (c) 1959 by G. & C. Merriam Co. Mom’s address is not on a numbered page, it’s on the page immediately following the inside from cover (the first flyleaf?) which is unpaginated–so I don’t have a page number to cite. I’ll include the provenance–how I know it was my Mom’s dictionary. I had seen it a few times before she died and I remember her telling me that her parents got it for her. It’s got her […]
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Some records were created before an event took place, usually in preparation for the event itself. The issuance of a marriage license does not guarantee that the marriage ever took place. The announcement of marriage banns also is not evidence of the actual marriage. Even a church bulletin announcing my baptism that day in church does not guarantee it took place. It does indicate the event was planned and scheduled for that day. And, in all likelihood, it did take place. But if one document said something was going to happen and other reliable information indicated that event did not happen, remind yourself that not every event intended to be actually comes to pass.
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