Sorry that you are going to fold your tent on this one, but here's my response to what you wrote: > . . . but giving proper credit to someone who helped you out isn't the > same > thing as SOURCING. There is nothing wrong with thanking a person for > supplying you with a document--but that doesn't make the person the > SOURCE > of the fact the document is supporting -- the document the person > supplied to > you is the source. On the contrary, the person who supplied the information is indeed the source. Every bit of information a genealogist collects has a source: "Aunt Martha said ..." is a source. "An email from Sam Jones said . . . " What Aunt Martha said and what Sam wrote, however, do not mean they are true and what the genealogist needs to do is to use what Martha and Sam said in order to determine whether the information is correct. DOCUMENTATION is needed. I try to put a source on everything - and the main reason is that it helps me keep track of how I found the information. Sources aren't the same as documentation, nor are they the same as citations. Anyone interested in pursuing this topic can look at "Sources, Citations and Documentations," a lesson in an on-line class I wrote several years ago. Go here: http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/classdoc.htm#Partone Richard A. Pence 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030-1900 Voice 703-591-4243 Fax: 703-352-3560 Pence Family History <www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/>