Bob -- it is confusing! Because journalists and historians use the word one way, and Mills' system uses it a different way, and if I make reference to anthropology, you get even more collisions of

Jan You’ve just confused me! First you say “primary refers to the *information* not the source (container)." But then you go on to say in your final paragraph that the information is primary

Adrian -- I'm going to be very persnickity here but bear with me while I clarify 1) Calling your 90 year old mother "a primary source" is journalism usage. In ESM's evidence anaylysis map, primary

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I cannot find my sent messages any more, amy ideas? How do we do that? You can look in your SENT file for any sign of messages you have not seen or answered. You can also use the 'search'

Thank you Jenny for sharing your story. I’m sure it will resonate with many of us! Julia

How do we do that? You can look in your SENT file for any sign of messages you have not seen or answered. You can also use the 'search' facility.

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I am finding this discussion very interesting and reflects many features of a brick wall it took me years to solve. A woman in my family tree built a whole new life for herself in order to drag

There are many times when we are analysing the records we use that we could say that someone was being economical with the truth. Providing proof and discussing the reason why we have put more weight

Jan - I'm fairly certain that you and I would be in 99% complete agreement about how to process a particular source of information. I agree wholly with Thomas Jones and delight in Judy Russell's

Before I address this, I'd like to drop in one more link to Dr. Thomas W. Jones' article Perils of Source Snobbery from OnBoard 18 (May 2012). Note what Elizabeth Shown Mills says in Quicklesson

Philosophy warning:- I've always thought that there was a little more to it than that, Jan. As Mike says, the Primary / Secondary attribute sits on the link between "fact" and source-record, so it

I don’t consider the FH Assessments of Primary evidence and Secondary evidence as applicable to the Source as a whole. Instead, they apply to the Fact and the Citation with respect to the

Jan...so helpful. Thank you. I must admit that, while I am familiar with a lot on the course, being introduced to GPS and the FAN family as examples of formal, critical approach has made the effort

Thanks so much to everyone who chimed in for your help. I'm still experimenting to see what works best for me but at least I now have some clue about what I'm doing. This is an amazing group.

Hello Terry -- A couple of points. A) You may already be aware that the Strathclyde course (and Family Historian itself) uses the term "primary" and "secondary" in a way that differs from the usage

See below If they are to believed they are on the case. Seems they finally believe me that messages sent to someone do not always go into their INBOX but reside, hidden (cause they would not

Terry, it was a brick wall I’d had for nearly 18 years, so you can imagine how happy I was when a chink in the wall appeared.