Need help figuring out if information listed as Sources is actually Sources

Question

Ellison-576 I am unsure if some of the sources listed on this profile are in fact sources? Also, I would like to know how to handle information like this?

Comments

Those questionable resources are beyond questionable. They provide no information or way to find them. I would delete.

Answer 1

All those questionable sources are GEDCOM loads.   FTW files and Broderbund Family Archive #304,  those are just the ways that the GEDCOM load was documented in the early days of WikiTree.   No different than saying "user submitted trees at XXX"

And since the person is not Pre-1700, those are considered sources, but the value is questionable at this time.

Answer 2

Hi Loretta,

As Robin states, trees are not sources, although they can be helpful in locating sources.

We have the Virginia Project for work on Virginia profiles (pre or post 1700), please join us if you have an interest in Virginia:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Virginia

Please see our page for sourcing Virginia profiles here:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Virginia_Sourcing_Help

Here is info on Mary Swope's death county (which later became part of West Virginia):

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Monroe_County%2C_West_Virginia

Please feel free to add more sources to the Monroe County page if you have them for that county.

Thanks.

-William