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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Clearly explained. Thank you for breaking it
down in this way. I will be sure that I separate the two standards in the
future.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Michael</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=eshown@comcast.net
href="mailto:eshown@comcast.net">eshown@comcast.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:53 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=michael.hait@hotmail.com
href="mailto:michael.hait@hotmail.com">'Michael Hait'</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> RE: [APG Public List] Genealogical Proof Standard (Was The
reliabilityof federal census records for genealogi...)</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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In my understanding of the GPS, I thought that the third step--the analysis of
records and evidence--incorporated the BCG standards of evidence analysis.
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does, but maybe it would clarify things if I put it this way. If you and I and
Jeanette are standing under an umbrella, we aren’t part of the umbrella.
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GPS is an umbrella that covers everything we do in our search for proof.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All the 73 standards in the Standards
Manual are individual concerns that describe good work practices. As such, they
could all fit under the umbrella, but they aren’t the umbrella and they each
have a separate identity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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this clarify things or just muddy the waters?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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