August 3, 2012  Is Family Lore Good Enough in Genealogy?  Edward
W. asked such a good question about sourcing genealogy
information that I wanted to answer it here on Olive Tree
Genealogy blog. It's a long email, even with editing, but it
raises some important points. Here is Edward's edited email
question below:  Several relatives of mine have done extensive
work on their branches of our family tree.   I came to recognize
the importance of giving sources for information when I was
working on extending the trees 10 years or so ago. The elderly
relative who did much of the work over the past 40 years had
sources, but she has not included them in the computer files.  
I recently purchased an upgrade to Family Tree Maker.  I feel
like I need to dig out and cite the sources for the information
in the tree.  The new version of FTM has a green leaf next to an
entry that has potential links online.  Her link yields seven
(!) family trees with a woman of the same name, all of which
list her birthdate as 1745, while o