Documenting your source of information for your ancestors is an easy thing to do, though it may add a minute or so to each and every event you discover about an ancestor's life, it may be important to know where you got the information later on.
Be specific, if it is off a website, don't just give the name of the website, copy and paste the url (webpage address) as the source of your information.
If your genealogy software allows it, give a confidence level to the accuracy of your source. What is the perfect source of information? For me, it is seeing an image of the actual document. It would be nice to see the actual document, but that is probably almost impossible for most of us.
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