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  • John G
    Commissioner
    • Sep 2014
    • 4919

    #316
    Originally posted by Pierre View Post
    Personal sources from the archives as well as known sources from the case. But also other published sources in very different collections.
    What specific sources?

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    • Geddy2112
      Inspector
      • Dec 2015
      • 1299

      #317
      Originally posted by Pierre View Post
      Personal sources from the archives as well as known sources from the case. But also other published sources in very different collections.
      ...and they are what?

      Originally posted by Pierre View Post
      I wish I had never seen them.
      You probably didn't...

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      • David Orsam
        *
        • Nov 2014
        • 7916

        #318
        Originally posted by Pierre View Post
        Personal sources from the archives
        Isn't the phrase "Personal sources from the archives" a contradiction in terms?

        Either they are personal to you or they belong to these "archives", surely.

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        • Pierre
          Inactive
          • Sep 2015
          • 4407

          #319
          Originally posted by David Orsam View Post
          Isn't the phrase "Personal sources from the archives" a contradiction in terms?

          Either they are personal to you or they belong to these "archives", surely.
          No, surely not David. Without persons, no personal sources. Without archives to collect personal sources, no personal sources collected in archives.

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          • David Orsam
            *
            • Nov 2014
            • 7916

            #320
            Originally posted by Pierre View Post
            No, surely not David. Without persons, no personal sources. Without archives to collect personal sources, no personal sources collected in archives.
            But without persons there are no sources at all. So doesn't that mean that all sources are "personal sources"? So why not just say "sources from the archives"? What did the word "personal" add to distinguish your sources from any others?

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            • Pierre
              Inactive
              • Sep 2015
              • 4407

              #321
              Originally posted by David Orsam View Post
              But without persons there are no sources at all. So doesn't that mean that all sources are "personal sources"? So why not just say "sources from the archives"? What did the word "personal" add to distinguish your sources from any others?
              As usual you understand nothing.

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              • David Orsam
                *
                • Nov 2014
                • 7916

                #322
                Originally posted by Pierre View Post
                As usual you understand nothing.
                As usual you explain nothing.

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                • Pcdunn
                  Superintendent
                  • Dec 2014
                  • 2323

                  #323
                  A librarian's viewpoint...

                  Originally posted by David Orsam View Post
                  But without persons there are no sources at all. So doesn't that mean that all sources are "personal sources"? So why not just say "sources from the archives"? What did the word "personal" add to distinguish your sources from any others?
                  As a librarian with a lot of cataloging experience, I may be able to point out that "personal sources" may include such items as letters, diaries, or memoirs-- and would be catalogued under the terms, respectively, "Personal correspondence", "Personal writings", or "Personal recollections."

                  An archive could collect any of the above sources.
                  Pat D. https://forum.casebook.org/core/imag...rt/reading.gif
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                  • David Orsam
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                    • Nov 2014
                    • 7916

                    #324
                    Well let's ask him shall we....

                    Pierre, when you say "personal sources" are you referring to letters, diaries or memoirs that you have found in "the archives"?

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                    • GUT
                      Commissioner
                      • Jan 2014
                      • 7841

                      #325
                      Originally posted by John G View Post
                      And, of course, these "sources" are all undisclosed, therefore may well be completely fanciful. This is irrefutable logic.

                      Unbelievable!
                      Other than the Gog and Magog letter and the foolishness that flowed and the 28th inst (or whatever) letter, he hasn't produced a single source.

                      Wonder if that's because they're non existent
                      G U T

                      There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                      • Elamarna
                        Commissioner
                        • Sep 2014
                        • 5807

                        #326
                        Originally posted by David Orsam View Post
                        Well let's ask him shall we....

                        Pierre, when you say "personal sources" are you referring to letters, diaries or memoirs that you have found in "the archives"?
                        David

                        this would back what Pierre claimed that he found his great discovery while researching something else: possibly a family history or biography of a person he was researching.

                        Of course this does not mean anything has been interpreted correctly.

                        Incidentally does carrying out genealogy make one an Academic Historian?


                        Steve

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                        • David Orsam
                          *
                          • Nov 2014
                          • 7916

                          #327
                          Originally posted by Elamarna View Post
                          this would back what Pierre claimed that he found his great discovery while researching something else: possibly a family history or biography of a person he was researching.
                          Well then, Steve, maybe a miracle will happen and he will give me a straight answer to my question!

                          There is a first time for everything.

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                          • Elamarna
                            Commissioner
                            • Sep 2014
                            • 5807

                            #328
                            Originally posted by David Orsam View Post
                            Well then, Steve, maybe a miracle will happen and he will give me a straight answer to my question!

                            There is a first time for everything.
                            David

                            We never know, didn't we recently have a Black Moon
                            So I guess anything is possible.

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                            • Abby Normal
                              Commissioner
                              • Jun 2010
                              • 11901

                              #329
                              Originally posted by Elamarna View Post
                              David

                              We never know, didn't we recently have a Black Moon
                              So I guess anything is possible.
                              What's a black moon? I've never heard that before. Is that like a new moon or eclipse?
                              "Is all that we see or seem
                              but a dream within a dream?"

                              -Edgar Allan Poe


                              "...the man and the peaked cap he is said to have worn
                              quite tallies with the descriptions I got of him."

                              -Frederick G. Abberline

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                              • Elamarna
                                Commissioner
                                • Sep 2014
                                • 5807

                                #330
                                Originally posted by Abby Normal View Post
                                What's a black moon? I've never heard that before. Is that like a new moon or eclipse?



                                Hi Abby
                                I noticed a BBC news story last week about it, and not something I have really heard of before.

                                Can't seem to find the BBC link but here are two more.










                                all the best steve

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