Content type
Wiki explainer
Primary use
Use this page to compare source lanes, place anchors, and wording limits before repeating a historical claim as settled.
What this page adds
It should add source-aware context, place anchors, wording limits, and a clearer next step than a raw claim or isolated source link can provide.
Evidence level
Starter
Claim status
Open
You should leave with a narrower question, a clearer place context, and a better sense of what the current source trail can support.
Overview
A source table helps disputed family claims stay reviewable. Instead of choosing the most exciting record, the table places each source beside the exact claim it supports, the claim it does not support, the privacy risk, and the recommended public wording.
What this page adds
- It turns a topic, place, or naming question into a source-led learning page instead of leaving it as a vague claim or isolated citation.
- It separates what the current record can support from what still needs comparison, correction, or stronger evidence.
- It gives readers a next-step research path instead of pretending the page is the last word.
What this helps you learn
- Source tables can separate names, dates, places, relationships, residence, identity language, oral memory, spiritual interpretation, and open questions.
- They make disagreement visible without turning conflict into public drama.
- They help contributors protect living people while still sharing useful source leads.
Careful claims
- Do not let one source overrule all others without explaining why.
- Do not publish raw private family documents, addresses, DNA details, or recent living-person data.
- Do not use the table to certify identity, ancestry, tribe, nationality, DNA conclusions, legal status, descent, or membership.
Research path
- Make columns for source, creator, date, exact detail, claim supported, claim not supported, conflict, privacy risk, evidence level, and wording.
- Use one row per source and one row per claim when a record supports more than one point.
- Move unresolved sensitive claims into Fact Check or Source Review before strengthening public copy.
Reader quality check
- Can you name the exact place, period, institution, or source type this page is using?
- Can you separate a direct source detail from an interpretation or community-memory reading?
- Can you identify which sentence would need a Source Table, Place Packet, or Claim Review Card before reuse?
- Can you explain what would change the wording: a new source, a contradiction, a boundary change, a name variant, or a privacy concern?
Before reusing this page
- Copy the claim only with its evidence label, place context, and uncertainty note.
- Check whether the page is explaining a source, a memory lane, an interpretation, or a working hypothesis.
- Use Source Review before turning the page into stronger identity, ancestry, legal-status, descent, DNA, membership, or Nation-language wording.
- Use Community Notes or Fact Check if a missing source, changed boundary, name variation, or contradiction would alter the public wording.
Source trail
- FOBA Claim Review – Internal claim-review framework.
- FOBA Source Review – Internal source-review workflow.
- FOBA Safe Sharing – Privacy guardrails for family research.
What remains open
This starter should be treated as a working research surface. Dates, naming, family continuity, identity-adjacent conclusions, and disputed interpretation may still need Source Review, Fact Check, Community Notes, or stronger corroboration.
Evidence note: This starter entry is educational. Add sources, dates, maps, Community Notes, and Fact Checks as research develops.