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Genealogically Defined is a designation given to profiles when they meet ALL THREE of the following requirements:[1]
- Each attached parent is proven with a source
- Each attached spouse is proven with a source
- Each attached child is proven with a source
The point of this designation is to signal the fact that the relationships connected to the profile are sourced with high confidence.
Examples of acceptable sources to prove relationships:
- Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death records
- Social Security records
- Census records which state the relationships
- Published obituaries
- Freedmen Bureau records which state relationships
- Cohabitation records
- Various church records which state relationships
- Headstones only when relationships are engraved
- First hand information from living family members
- Oral history passed down in families when a search for all other sources has been exhausted
Examples of sources that do not prove relationships:
- A family tree whether online (ie: Ancestry) or on paper
- Census records before relationships were stated (pre-1880)
- Unsourced family histories/genealogies
- Find A Grave memorials unless it has a headstone as stated above
To declare that a profile is Genealogically Defined, place this link at the very top of the profile's biography [[Space:US_Black_Heritage_Project_Genealogically_Defined|US Black Heritage Project Genealogically Defined]]
We recognize that new sources may bring new information to light.
Example Profiles:
Sources
- ↑ According to Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, Director of the Great Migration Study Project and author of Elements of Genealogical Analysis
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