{"id":5802,"date":"2016-11-29T08:21:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T14:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=5802"},"modified":"2016-11-28T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T03:28:11","slug":"sources-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/29\/sources-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources Are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, genealogists who write and lecture extensively about genealogy research and methodology, put sources in one of three categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Original-the first time the document was recorded.<\/li>\n<li>Derivative-when the document was reproduced, whether by hand or some sort of &#8220;image reproduction&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Authored Narrative-usually a written compilation of original and derivative records along with analysis, interpretation and summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This classification scheme is not perfect. No scheme is perfect. This classification scheme does not comment on the accuracy of the record. That&#8217;s the job of the researcher as some original sources are virtually worthless and some derivative sources are excellent.<\/p>\n<p>For more about record classification and analysis, consult\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1H8sTPT\">Evidence Explained<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, genealogists who write and lecture extensively about genealogy research and methodology, put sources in one of three categories: Original-the first time the document was recorded. Derivative-when the document was reproduced, whether by hand or some sort of &#8220;image reproduction&#8221; Authored Narrative-usually a written compilation of original and derivative records along with analysis, interpretation [&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-5802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802","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=5802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}