{"id":14645,"date":"2022-01-21T11:39:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14645"},"modified":"2022-01-21T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T17:39:31","slug":"one-good-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/21\/one-good-source\/","title":{"rendered":"One Good Source"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I don&#8217;t need four repairmen coming over, I just need one who knows what he&#8217;s doing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Citation and documentation matter in genealogical research. But &#8220;sources&#8221; are more than just citing them and the number of them you in an attempt to prove a fact about a deceased relative. It is the accuracy of those sources and whether or not they are truly independent that matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A person may have four original documents that provides the same piece of information: a place of birth. But if those documents (a death certificate, a marriage application, an obituary, and a biography written by the same person) all have the same informant, it&#8217;s really just one piece of information that is dependent on how reliable that person is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A place of birth on a birth record completed by the doctor or someone else in attendance at the event  or who would have had reliable first-hand knowledge may be better than numerous other sources written by someone whose knowledge of the event is second hand&#8211;especially when those sources did not agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not how many sources you have that is as important as their perceived reliability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t need four repairmen coming over, I just need one who knows what he&#8217;s doing. Citation and documentation matter in genealogical research. But &#8220;sources&#8221; are more than just citing them and the number of them you in an attempt to prove a fact about a deceased relative. It is the accuracy of those sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}