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ABOUT THE 'No Harm' QUALIFIER
Copyright 2007-2009 by Ancestry Register LLC and Terry J. Booth
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All reproduction or reuse is prohibited, in whole or in part, without written permission of the author and Ancestry Register LLC.
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AncestryRegister.com has adopted an integrated set of geneapology quality standards that expand the potential scope of any family history beyond that available using traditional genealogy standards. The difference in standards is easily understood - traditional genealogy judges an entry's acceptability using a 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard (i.e. unquestionably true), while geneapography accepts a 'preponderance of the evidence' standard (i.e. more likely than not to be true). Any entry that meets the geneapography standard but not that of genealogy is required to include a 'Qualifier' denoting which of six permitted reasons best describe the additional entry (Click HERE to learn more about the six types of qualifiers used by geneapography). Click about Geneapography to learn more about AR's new approach to creating Family Histories.
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'No Harm' Entries are qualified as follows :
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Any person entry whose parentage of partner does not qualify as 'Proven', but whose link to an earlier ancestry is proven by evidence in a book or journal of Genealogy, History or Prosopography (or similar medium) by a recognized scholar, should be identified using the 'No Harm' Qualifier. The word 'No Harm' should appear in the entry's Title Prefix, Title Suffix or Given Name in any database submitted for publication (see also AncestryRegister.com Style Sheet).
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[Special Note]: Sometimes there is no uncertainty about a person's earlier ancestry, but genealogy must deny linking to it if there is uncertainty about an immediate link. For example, families may repeat a name in several generations (i.e. John Smith m. Mary Jones, who had a son John Smith m. Mary Taylor). There may sometimes be proof that Joan Smith was a dau of one of them, but uncertainty as to which generation. The 'No Harm' qualifier allows an author to assign Joan to the earlier generation (i.e. John Smith and Mary Jones) if they were at least Joan's grandparents. While this denies Joan her Mary Taylor ancestry, it is a lesser loss than denying her John Smith and Mary Jones' ancestry as traditional genealogy requires. Including a 'No Harm' link requires a thorough understanding of the history and social circumstances of the entry's family and neighbors, and may require extensive Notes to be persuasive.
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