Sources are documents, registers, publications, artefacts, people, websites and other sources of information used in genealogy and family history research.
Questions tagged [sources]
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How should I record my sources correctly?
I have not understood the need for recording where I obtained my information. Reading answers here has made me rethink. I would like to start my family tree again, this time recording the source for my research. What details and format should I…
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Is Tanguay's "Dictionnaire Genealogique" considered to be reliable?
Fr. Cyprien Tanguay's Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours (Montréal: Eusèbe Senécal, 1871-1890) covers many of my French-Canadian ancestors from the 17th and 18th centuries. In many…
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Offline availability of commercially available online sources?
I want to gain an understanding of commercial genealogy services from the perspective of a market that is described as "embryonic" (Germany) in Ancestry's Ancestry Global Family History Report 2014.
Especially I am wondering to which extent…
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Adding source citation for Cremation?
Here is an entry concerning a cremation:
At the moment I do not have a "source citation" for this entry.
But, I did receive this information from the manager at Gwent Crematorium via email.
In this situations what would be the right process for…
Andrew Truckle
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