12 March 2014

Sources, Information & Evidence in Pictures - MGP2 Study Group 2 Chapter 2

This post is part of DearMyrtle's Hangout on Air series, MGP2 Study Group 2, studying Mastering Genealogical Proof by Thomas W. Jones.¹ Hangouts are every Sunday morning at 10:00 AM Eastern US time. Join us to learn more about the discipline of genealogical work and how adhering to its standards will improve your family history results. Your family will thank you.

Visual people draw pictures to help themselves learn new or complicated information. My margin doodlings for Chapter 2 in Mastering Genealogical Proof turned into this.

Genealogical Questions Lead to Sources:



There are three source types²:


Information is seen in or heard from 

the source: 
Information can be divided into 
three categories³:



Just as there can be many seeds in each pot, so there can be multiple pieces of information in each source


Information seeds becomes evidence:


There are three kinds of evidence:



Did you notice that I embedded citations in the graphic above? Although not quoted directly from the book, the evidence descriptions are similar to Dr. Jones' writings on the subject. Now, if someone downloads or borrows this genealogy evidence infographic, others will know where these ideas originated. 

Wish I could say that I quickly created these graphics for genealogical sources, information and evidence, but it has taken me the better part of two days. Let me know what you think.

¹Thomas W. Jones, Mastering Genealogical Proof (Arlington, Virginia: National Genealogical    Society, 2013).
²Jones, Mastering Genealogical Proof, 8.³Jones, Mastering Genealogical Proof, 11-12.
Jones, Mastering Genealogical Proof, 14-15


Jennifer Shoer aka Scrappy Gen
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3 comments:

  1. Love the graphics, Jennifer. What an effective way to visualize the differences between types of sources, information, and evidence. Well done!

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  2. Well done and very clear. I am sure the creation of the infographics really reinforced the differences in these different concepts for you.

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