What's the difference between a copy published in a book, a copy obtained from someone's notebook, or a copy obtained from microfilm? None are original copies, and any could be mislabled. Debbie And there is where we are going to continue to disagree. I am in complete agreement that you can't attribute your source to a document you have never seen or only have seen copied in a book--in that case the source is HOW YOU KNOW THE INFORMATION--the book. But the same is not true if you have a photocopy of the pirmary record no matter HOW you obtained that record or who sent it to you.