From: Craig T. <ctr...@co...> - 2013-04-15 16:31:02
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At 10:41 AM -0400 4/15/13, Michael Tiernan wrote: >On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Martin Steer <mar...@ma...> wrote: >> According to my understanding of the conventional academic practice, >> when you reference a source you're claiming that, 1) you've consulted >> it, and 2) it supports the story you're telling. >> >> A repository is then just some place, or a number of places, where the >> source can be consulted. It's a useful reminder for you, and a courtesy >> for anyone following in your footsteps. > >Good to know, I never thought of it this way. > >Let me ask it a different way using the examples provided previously. > >If I get the draft card image from Ancestry, I can use Ancestry as a >repository but unless I've gone to the second repository, in this >example "National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)" I can't >put that down as a repository for the information, is this a correct >interpretation? "Can't"? You can do whatever you want! Unless this is part of your doctoral thesis or somesuch!! I think part of the issue is that the terminology is skewed towards the pre-internet era of genealogical research. Then, a researcher actually visited, say, a church and viewed the birth, marriage, and death records. Then, the repository was pretty obvious. Now, we're often viewing scans of the microfiche of the census sheets. What is the repository now? The website hosting the images? Any library with a copy of the microfiche? Or the public archives with the original forms...if they still exist! I record where _I_ found the source. If that repository goes away, the future researcher can figure out where to look. >Which leads me to some quirky stuff, if I want to put my mother's >yearbook picture in the gallery, what do I use for the repository, >"the shelf next to the water heater?" Maybe pedantic, but I think the repository is "Personal collection, Michel Tiernan <substitute your Mother's actual name>". Craig (What is the "repository" for information received orally! ;) |