Ms. Pat; I suspect that this URL would not be acceptable, since it might so easily be altered to meet any surreptitious needs of the submitter.
However, I would suggest that the citation listed within that web page - NEHGR, Vol. 18, Jan. 1864, pp. 82-86, p. 82 might be acceptable to some, if not most examiners.
The question you must address is, "Who - WHO - do I need to satisfy?" Virtually every organization has examiners who accept or reject evidence submitted based upon their own range of experience, the rules of that society/group, and what they had for breakfast that morning.
Whether or not your submission of material must satisfy yourself, your cousins, such as the S.A.R. or D.A.R., the Founders and Patriots, your family society, a publisher, or whoever, depends upon that person or organization only. There are NO rules that may be written, no matter what words might be selected, that will meet the requirements of ALL such groups.
When I have a problem wherein I must submit my evidence/sources to a stranger, I phone or go talk to him/her in order that I know what THOSE people demand. Fortunately, most examiners of genealogical evidence have now abandoned the meaningless words "preponderance of evidence", and have done so in favor of "clear and convincing".
Still though, whether or not your evidence is clear and convincing to others depends, not upon YOU, but upon them in keeping with THEIR rules (and breakfast).
I might add that as Past Registrar of TN S.A.R. for three terms, I would accept the NEHGS article as quite weighty evidence, presuming it was written some considerable number of years in the past, and also presuming that the original materials are not now available.
Genealogy without documentation is nothing.
Paul Drake JD
Genealogist & Author
<www.DrakesBooks.com>
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From: Patricia
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Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 1:13 PM
Subject: [VA-ROOTS] When are internet documents considered accurate?
I was wondering about this a few days ago. When a document is transcribed
and posted on the internet, is it usually considered authentic enough to be
counted as "proper documentation"?
As a "for instance":
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/hampden/spfld/records/vr.html
As long as I make sure there are several other means of documenting dates,
etc, would you trust apage like this? Or do most of you prefer photocopies
of the actual record?
Pat in Montana
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