Re: Genealogy For The Beginner

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:06:43 GMT, Eagle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (J. Hugh Sullivan)
declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing:

> 2: a tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its
> logical or empirical consequences

	<snip>
> 
> How does one do any of those for most families prior to about 1900
> because there is seldom, if ever, a way to contest recorded entries
> since additional eveidence will probably never be available.
> 
> If you can't test the truth/accuracy seems like recorded statements
> must be accepted as fact thus no longer hypotheses.
> 
	Lack of evidence of proof does not constitute proof. The matter
remains a hypothesis. And if one wants to rather strict, lots of
corroborating evidence will only promote it to a theory <G>

	Heck -- I could make the claim that the official birth certificate,
in my firesafe, of one "Dennis Lee James Bieber" refers to me is only a
hypothesis (after all, maybe the hospital had a baby swap <G>)

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