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The video does tell the story as if a user or researcher is researching their own family. The chart is more generic than that but I can see that that subtlety gets lost in the video.
Good point. I’m working on concept maps that take a concept and fleshes it out to the next level of detail the ‘mention’ concept should probably be included at that level.
Very interesting video. I would like to note that the chart implies that the researcher only looks for records for his own ancestors, it seems to exclude the possibility of a researcher searching for other ancestors who are not related to the researcher.
I think you’re missing one concept though: ‘mention’. Each historical record consists of mentions of people, relations, events, institutions. The genealogist identifies different mentions as belonging to the same entity. All the mentions combined form the body of knowledge about that entity. Mentions may corroborate each other or contradict each other, the latter needing further analysis to resolve.
The video does tell the story as if a user or researcher is researching their own family. The chart is more generic than that but I can see that that subtlety gets lost in the video.
Good point. I’m working on concept maps that take a concept and fleshes it out to the next level of detail the ‘mention’ concept should probably be included at that level.
Very interesting video. I would like to note that the chart implies that the researcher only looks for records for his own ancestors, it seems to exclude the possibility of a researcher searching for other ancestors who are not related to the researcher.
Cool video!
I think you’re missing one concept though: ‘mention’. Each historical record consists of mentions of people, relations, events, institutions. The genealogist identifies different mentions as belonging to the same entity. All the mentions combined form the body of knowledge about that entity. Mentions may corroborate each other or contradict each other, the latter needing further analysis to resolve.