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Elisabeth de Montlhéry - Please use original sources

Started by Private User on Sunday, March 22, 2015
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Private User
3/22/2015 at 8:39 PM

Please use original sources for citing members of the nobility from the Crusader kingdom.

Good example: William of Tyre

Or other well researched works by sources like Steven Runciman.
Also, writing them as " our family" ( family related to millions of descendants ) does not seem like good form.

Private User
3/23/2015 at 2:51 PM

This is good advice for everybody in general.

Note: the Visitations are *not* primary sources, and should be used with as much caution as you would any random family trees found online. Some of them are pretty good, some are just appallingly bad, and all of them are prone to mistakes of omission or (sometimes) commission. (Plus, the heralds could be, and sometimes were, bribed.)

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