Person talk:Frances Weymouth (1)

Sources [21 December 2020]

I know there were complaints because a previous editor removed a source citation "Sherrie Wright of Maine." I would like to suggest this is a collaborative site, and we are posting data for others. This citation was useless. It does not tell anybody where to go to verify the information it is alleged to have said. It does not even say what information it contributed, nor does the name mean anything to virtually everybody looking at this page. Hence, I agree with the removal. Using such a source should cite a publicly available specific source, or if not public, a MySource should created detailing the information given and its provenance.

I removed a reference to Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source). The title says it all. In addition, links to ancestry.com become free ads for Ancestry when the viewer does not belong, and I believe this is inappropriate. In any event, knowing these citations are unusable to many, if not most, WeRelate users, ideally when used, they would say what information was taken from them.

Finally, I removed a citation of FamilySearch Family Tree which claims to have 4 sources. What is needed is the actual sources. I have cited them, placing the marriage source on the Family page. As it turns out, none of them actually provided any source for the specific birth and death dates, so a poster would be none the wiser how those dates were known. Even if you followed the 4 sources, you would have to simply take the word of the virtually anonymous person who posted the Find A Grave page, which, by comparison with other Find A Grave pages, has about a 50% chance of being correct. --Jrich 01:27, 22 December 2020 (UTC)