What do all genealogists have in common? We all find records that contradict each other. My new post at Archives.com gives six steps for dealing with them.
Photo credit: Peter Birch, hedgerowmobile's photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hedgerowmobile/335284045, per Creative Commons.
Harold Henderson, "How To Handle Conflicting Evidence: A Six-Step Program," Archives, 8 October 2013, http://www.archives.com/experts/henderson-harold/how-to-handle-conflicting-evidence.html : viewed 11 October 2013.
Harold Henderson, "Contradictions Everywhere," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 13 October 2013 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Contradictions Everywhere
Posted by Harold Henderson at 12:30 AM
Labels: Archives.com, conflicting evidence, contradictions, methodology
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