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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:57:10 +0000, Ian Goddard   
    wrote:   
      
   >As a final comment I'd suggest that we should be treating this as   
   >*evidence*-based genealogy, not event-based.  For instance a single   
   >record which describes the baptism of John, the posthumous son of   
   >William Brown is evidence of 3 events, the birth and baptism of John and   
   >the death of William.   
      
   It depends on your point of view.   
      
   I am more interested in the events in the life of a person, than in   
   the documents that provide evidence of it.   
      
   When I read a biography of someone, I read the text, with occasional   
   glances at the footnotes/endnotes to see what evidence there was for   
   what is described. It sounds from what you are saying that you read   
   the footnotes first, with only occasional glances at the text.   
      
   So a bishop's transcript of a baptism register may have been compiled   
   a year or more after the events described, but to me the document is   
   important for the events it bears witness to, and I don't want to   
   order things by the date of transcription, which in any case is rarely   
   known.   
      
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