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From: Liz and Allen Mellen <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Sources
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 16:18:40 -0500


Lee Hoffman/KY wrote:
>Further on the topic of importing/entering data received from someone else
>and regarding the sources that they give --
>
<snip>
>Theerefore the recommendation is that if you enter the data given to you,
>cite _your_ source and not their source. As someone else mentioned, you
>may want to cite _your_ source and add that they cited some source. This
>would keep your records straight and wouldn't lose any data while being a
>definite indicator that (other citations notwithstanding) you had not seen
>their source.
>
Admittedly I am jumping into this thread at the end before reading the
earlier posts. Nevertheless, I cannot imagine a valid reason for not
_recording_ the source cited by someone else. One way to do this is to
cite: An Other Researcher, citing 1842 Census (or whatever.)

Allen
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Allen Mellen, New York, NY <>

See my TMG resource page at http://www.geocities.com/allenmellen/tmg.html

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