{"id":23167,"date":"2024-12-12T04:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=23167"},"modified":"2024-12-12T04:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:54:20","slug":"primary-secondary-original-and-derivative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/primary-secondary-original-and-derivative\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary, Secondary, Original, and Derivative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A reminder:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In current genealogy parlance sources (record books, vital records, marriage records, etc.) are said to be original or derivative. Original records are ones that are in their &#8220;first form.&#8221; Derivative records are ones that are created from original records&#8211;transcriptions, abstracts, summaries, compilations, and the like. Technically, according to some, scans and photographic reproductions are derivative copies as well but they certainly are more reliable than hand written copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information is considered to be primary or secondary. Generally speaking, a piece of information reported or stated by someone who had first hand knowledge of the event is considered primary. The statement needs also to have been made when the person&#8217;s memory was fresh and reliable. Other statements are usually said to be secondary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A source can contain information that is primary and other information that is secondary. A source can contain information from varying informants. An informant can have some knowledge that is primary and some knowledge that is secondary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This classification system is not meant, by itself, to determine how reliable a piece of information or a source is. It&#8217;s just meant to discuss the form of the record and the source of information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reminder: In current genealogy parlance sources (record books, vital records, marriage records, etc.) are said to be original or derivative. Original records are ones that are in their &#8220;first form.&#8221; Derivative records are ones that are created from original records&#8211;transcriptions, abstracts, summaries, compilations, and the like. Technically, according to some, scans and photographic reproductions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167","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\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}