XPost: soc.genealogy.computing, soc.genealogy.misc, alt.genealogy   
   XPost: soc.history   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:38:05 +0000, Ian Goddard   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 21/03/17 11:25, J. Hugh Sullivan wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 08:57:34 +0200, Steve Hayes   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> To me genealogy is name, date and place of birth, date and place of   
   >> death and where buried. Everything else is family history. And most   
   >> people, including me, include it. But I don't see family history as   
   >> the prime reason for a genealogy program. There needs to be an option   
   >> for those who do.   
   >   
   >If you don't care for the evidence genealogy becomes absurdly easy.  You   
   >can simply write your own to get back to Adam, Wodin or whoever takes   
   >your fancy.   
      
   No one is disputing the need for evidence.   
      
   The point here is making sense of the events of the life of a person,   
   family or community, whatever the evidence.   
      
   You keep going on about a "paper trail" as if the paper is more   
   important than thebn information contained in it.   
      
   When someone who was a work colleage of my wife's third cousin once   
   removed, and tells about something that happened to him at work, what   
   is more important -- the date of the event in the person's life, or   
   the date on which I committed the information received in the phone   
   call to paper?   
      
   What if I made a note on my computer, and only printed it on paper a   
   couple of years later? You seem to be saying that the date of the   
   printout is more important than the date of the event in the person's   
   life.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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