Our Mission: We collect Old Terlingua to connect it with today
Our Policy: with respect for the living and the dead
Our Vision: to make Old Terlingua touch you today.
Our Policy: with respect for the living and the dead
Our Vision: to make Old Terlingua touch you today.
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Be a Contributor - Add to Familias de Terlingua
Familias de Terlingua cannot be, nor do we desire it to be, the creation of a few people. Creating Familias de Terlingua is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Many people adding a piece here or there make it possible to complete the picture. It takes all of us. It takes all of us to add our little piece. Even if your piece is a question and not information. Asking questions is very helpful too. Together we will gradually populate Familias de Terlingua. To make Familias de Terlingua more valuable it is helpful if you tell us the source of your information when you send it. Knowing the source of information is as important as knowing the information itself. All sources are useful, but only if they are known. If the source is an oral tradition handed down by your 88 year old great aunt, that is great. Tell us that. Or, if the source is an official record like a death certificate, that is great too. Send a scanned copy if you can. Or simply tell us where the document was located. To submit information or pose questions of our viewers use any of the Discussions or send us email and put the word "Familias" in the subject line so we will know it is not spam. And tell us the source of your information. |
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Known Sources yield Levels of Credibility
Familias de Terlingua can be a valuable reference to those seeking to know their Terlingua ancestors and "new" cousins. But the value comes from knowing how trustworthy, how believable, the information is. The trustworthiness arises from the source of the information.
Even information on official documents can be wrong. But different pieces of information from known sources can be used together to gain a higher level of credibility. Information doesn't have to be 100% proven to be interesting and useful. But knowing its level of credibility makes information more usable.
It is difficult, maybe impossible, to rank the credibility of information that is not grounded on sources. The source can be oral tradition handed down by a specific family member or friend. Or it can be a document long "lost" in a drawer or a hard to reach shelf. Or it can be data diligently gathered by hours of searching databases, church records, governmental documents. It can be an original document compiled from your research carefully analyzed, and artfully put into a documented report. Secondary research is research of research. For example, researching genealogy websites is secondary research. These sites are "retelling" what some original primary research found in interviewing people, researching official documents from government or business. We prefer to use primary research in this website, but we will use secondary research when primary information is not available and secondary information is. We will credit the sources of the research in both primary research and secondary research.
When you send us information, we would appreciate you sending us who or what the sources of your information are and your estimation of its credibility. We may use your information with other information to corroborate or question information to increase its value to the readers of Familias de Terlingua. We do not set ourselves as "judges" of the truth. We do not select the “true” and discard the untrue. We simply try to inform you as much as possible of the sources of the information so that you can better decide the level of certitude you ascribe to the information presented.
About Primary research and Secondary Research
It is difficult, maybe impossible, to assess the credibility of information that is not grounded on known sources. The first important thing to take into account in determining how likely something is to be true is by going to first hand sources. We call this primary research. But when there is no first hand information available secondary sources (e.g. "I remember that my father used to tell me that ...") can be useful but should be corroborated by more than one source to increase its credibility. At the very least the readers should know the nature of the source so they can make up their own minds.
Add human nature to the mix and we have distortions introduced in the retelling. We all know the game where you get a group of people and you write something down. You whisper it to the person next to you. They whisper it to the next. When it has gone full circle the last person says outloud what they heard and then compare it to what was originally written. It can be quite funny to see the distortions that come from retelling. We slightly change things as the reteller hears and sees it from his or her point of view. Psychologist tell us that in the retelling we will also have a tendancy to enhance that which flatters us and diminish what we do not like. The more retellings (my father told me that his father told him that his mother said ...) the more likely it is to have changed. But if several sources even secondary sources provide the same information then maybe it is more likely to be true unless they all are based on the same second hand retelling.
Research conducted by going to original sources such as a living relative who remembers the facts and relates them orally in an interview or has written them down is primary research. Primary research also includes the diligent study of documents from churches, governmental agencies, or businesses such as baptismal records, marriage records, death certificates, census records, or payroll records in a private business.
The source can be oral tradition handed down by a specific family member or friend. Or it can be a document long "lost" in a drawer or a hard to reach shelf. Or it can be data diligently gathered by hours of searching databases, church records, governmental documents. It can be an original document compiled from your research carefully analyzed, and artfully put into a documented report. The analysis comes from gathering and comparing as many sources for the information as possible. Even primary sources have errors. People remember with some distortion. Documents don't always have accurate information. So the more sources of information that agrees the more accurate it can be judged.
Secondary research is research of research. For example, researching genealogy websites is secondary research. These sites are "retelling" what some original primary research found in interviewing people or in official documents from churches, government agencies, or business logs and journals.
We prefer to use primary research in this website but will use secondary research when needed. We will credit the sources of the research in both primary research and secondary research.
[editors note: this section on Primary and Secondary Research is being rewritten. It is confusing in its present form]
Familias de Terlingua can be a valuable reference to those seeking to know their Terlingua ancestors and "new" cousins. But the value comes from knowing how trustworthy, how believable, the information is. The trustworthiness arises from the source of the information.
Even information on official documents can be wrong. But different pieces of information from known sources can be used together to gain a higher level of credibility. Information doesn't have to be 100% proven to be interesting and useful. But knowing its level of credibility makes information more usable.
It is difficult, maybe impossible, to rank the credibility of information that is not grounded on sources. The source can be oral tradition handed down by a specific family member or friend. Or it can be a document long "lost" in a drawer or a hard to reach shelf. Or it can be data diligently gathered by hours of searching databases, church records, governmental documents. It can be an original document compiled from your research carefully analyzed, and artfully put into a documented report. Secondary research is research of research. For example, researching genealogy websites is secondary research. These sites are "retelling" what some original primary research found in interviewing people, researching official documents from government or business. We prefer to use primary research in this website, but we will use secondary research when primary information is not available and secondary information is. We will credit the sources of the research in both primary research and secondary research.
When you send us information, we would appreciate you sending us who or what the sources of your information are and your estimation of its credibility. We may use your information with other information to corroborate or question information to increase its value to the readers of Familias de Terlingua. We do not set ourselves as "judges" of the truth. We do not select the “true” and discard the untrue. We simply try to inform you as much as possible of the sources of the information so that you can better decide the level of certitude you ascribe to the information presented.
About Primary research and Secondary Research
It is difficult, maybe impossible, to assess the credibility of information that is not grounded on known sources. The first important thing to take into account in determining how likely something is to be true is by going to first hand sources. We call this primary research. But when there is no first hand information available secondary sources (e.g. "I remember that my father used to tell me that ...") can be useful but should be corroborated by more than one source to increase its credibility. At the very least the readers should know the nature of the source so they can make up their own minds.
Add human nature to the mix and we have distortions introduced in the retelling. We all know the game where you get a group of people and you write something down. You whisper it to the person next to you. They whisper it to the next. When it has gone full circle the last person says outloud what they heard and then compare it to what was originally written. It can be quite funny to see the distortions that come from retelling. We slightly change things as the reteller hears and sees it from his or her point of view. Psychologist tell us that in the retelling we will also have a tendancy to enhance that which flatters us and diminish what we do not like. The more retellings (my father told me that his father told him that his mother said ...) the more likely it is to have changed. But if several sources even secondary sources provide the same information then maybe it is more likely to be true unless they all are based on the same second hand retelling.
Research conducted by going to original sources such as a living relative who remembers the facts and relates them orally in an interview or has written them down is primary research. Primary research also includes the diligent study of documents from churches, governmental agencies, or businesses such as baptismal records, marriage records, death certificates, census records, or payroll records in a private business.
The source can be oral tradition handed down by a specific family member or friend. Or it can be a document long "lost" in a drawer or a hard to reach shelf. Or it can be data diligently gathered by hours of searching databases, church records, governmental documents. It can be an original document compiled from your research carefully analyzed, and artfully put into a documented report. The analysis comes from gathering and comparing as many sources for the information as possible. Even primary sources have errors. People remember with some distortion. Documents don't always have accurate information. So the more sources of information that agrees the more accurate it can be judged.
Secondary research is research of research. For example, researching genealogy websites is secondary research. These sites are "retelling" what some original primary research found in interviewing people or in official documents from churches, government agencies, or business logs and journals.
We prefer to use primary research in this website but will use secondary research when needed. We will credit the sources of the research in both primary research and secondary research.
[editors note: this section on Primary and Secondary Research is being rewritten. It is confusing in its present form]
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Any materials submitted to Familias de Terlingua pass rights of publication in Familias de Terlingua and any future publication media to Antonio Santiago Franco unless other specific arrangements are made when arranging to submit the materials.
Individuals may use Familias de Terlingua content, text, photos and other graphics, freely for personal and family use but we ask that you attribute Familias de Terlingua as the source.
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