Add a record with its source details

Record

A documentary source or citation used as evidence: certificates, registers, censuses, passenger lists, wills.

Memory

Personal, expressive or family-authored material: photographs, voices, letters, recipes, stories.

File

An attachment belonging to either. A PDF is not automatically a record; a photograph is not automatically a memory.

The memories and evidence guide walks through a worked example of a memory and a record that disagree.

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   Step 1. Open Add → Document or citation, or Archive → Records → Add a record.

   

   

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   Step 2. Under 1. Choose the record type, pick the familiar kind: birth and adoption, marriage, census, death, immigration and so on. Other / not sure is allowed and keeps the record in the inbox for a decision later.

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   Step 3. Add an Optional title and choose the pages with Choose photos, audio, video or PDFs, or Scan with camera on a phone. With several files you are asked whether they are pages of one record or separate records.

   

   

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   Step 4. Choose Add files to uploads and wait for Saved.

   

   

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You do not need a scan to keep a source. Add a citation records where it can be found.

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   Step 1. Choose the record type, then a Record title (optional).

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   Step 2. Fill in the Repository (the archive or website), the Collection title, a Record identifier and a Volume or page, or paste a Source URL. A citation needs a URL, or a repository plus one of the other details.

   

   

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   Step 3. Choose Save citation.

   

   

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From the record’s details, link the people it is about. On a person’s Sources view you can then say which fact or life event the record supports, quote the relevant line and note what is uncertain. A record can support a fact, challenge it or simply give context; see evidence, sources and conclusions.