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ABOUT THE 'Proposed' QUALIFIER
Copyright 2007-2009 by Ancestry Register LLC and Terry J. Booth
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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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'Proposed' Entries are qualified as follows :
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Any person entry that does not qualify as 'Probable', but whose existence and relationships are proposed and justified in a book or journal of History or Prosopography (or similar medium) by a recognized scholar, should be identified using the 'Proposed' Qualifier. Authors are NOT permitted to propose such entries unless they can demonstrate an understanding of the methodologies used by historians and prosopographers, and can present persuasive evidence in the entry's Notes. The word 'Proposed' 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]: This qualifier is intended to encompass various 'Descent from Antiquity' proposals like those of respected scholar Christian Settipani. Including a 'Proposed' person in a database requires a thorough understanding of a family's history, social circumstances and locality, and may require extensive Notes to be persuasive. Entries based solely on similar names, undocumented entries in the LDS or another person's database, or family traditions lacking evidentiary support, do NOT qualify for this qualifier.
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