One standard I have to use due to lots of similar families using similar names is exhaustive ways attempting to show a source is incorrect, rather than attempting to corroborate it. For instance, checking the BMD doesn't have multiple birth entries with the same name in the same area, or checking deaths/burials/obits that someone didn't die in infancy that I though had gone on to marry and become a parent to some of interest in the tree.
Making a mistake with an early corroborative source can lead to confirmation bias regarding subsequent supportive sources to the original.
The closest you get get to an original record in England and Wales is a copy of registration at the county level, everything else is a copy of a copy at least!
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Looking forward to looking at the new Lincoln Leader and the Coventry records.
One standard I have to use due to lots of similar families using similar names is exhaustive ways attempting to show a source is incorrect, rather than attempting to corroborate it. For instance, checking the BMD doesn't have multiple birth entries with the same name in the same area, or checking deaths/burials/obits that someone didn't die in infancy that I though had gone on to marry and become a parent to some of interest in the tree.
Making a mistake with an early corroborative source can lead to confirmation bias regarding subsequent supportive sources to the original.
The closest you get get to an original record in England and Wales is a copy of registration at the county level, everything else is a copy of a copy at least!