Evidence Standards

Citation Network: Archive Records ↔ Published Research

A public claim-to-source matrix showing what is directly documented, what is corroborated, what rests on compiled genealogy, and what still requires stronger primary evidence.

Record-to-publication citation map

This network intentionally distinguishes direct support, published citation, corroboration, contextual local history, visual records, and compiled genealogy. A backlink is not automatically a claim that the record proves every statement in the linked chapter.

Archive recordRelationshipPublished research / entity page
Miss Moody and Mr. Poston Marriage NoticeCorroborating family contextPoston Family History — Chapter Ten: John Fleetwood Moody and the Poston Connection
Poston Family Lineage Chart — Hugh Poston II to Eric Chalmers PostonCompiled genealogy / research guidePoston Family History — Chapter Seven
Poston Family Lineage Chart — Hugh Poston II to Eric Chalmers PostonCompiled genealogy / research guidePoston Family History — Chapter Nine
1916 Andrew Poston Obituary — “Town of Poston on Seaboard Named for Him”Direct documentary supportPoston Family History — Chapter Six: Andrew Poston and the Naming of the Town
1916 Andrew Poston Obituary — “Town of Poston on Seaboard Named for Him”Published citationRooted in the Pee Dee — Part II: The Infrastructural Revolution and the Birth of Poston
1916 Andrew Poston Obituary — “Town of Poston on Seaboard Named for Him”Direct documentary supportAndrew Poston historical entity page
Poston Family Lineage Chart — Andrew Poston and Hugh Poston LinesCompiled genealogy / research guidePoston Family History — Chapter Five: Hugh Poston and the Pee Dee Branches
Poston Family Lineage Chart — Andrew Poston and Hugh Poston LinesCompiled genealogy / research guideA Poston Family of South Carolina — Chapter 12: The First Hugh Poston
Poston Family Lineage Chart — Andrew Poston and Hugh Poston LinesCompiled genealogy / research guideA Poston Family of South Carolina — Chapter 14: The Andrew Poston Family
Lynches Lake City Historical Society — Winter 2024Contextual local-history sourcePoston Family History — Chapter Six
Ruth West Poston Obituary — The News and Courier, April 26, 1976Direct contemporary family recordPoston Family History — Chapter Nine
Ruth West and Harold Chalmers Poston Marriage — The News and Courier, April 6, 1952Direct contemporary family recordPoston Family History — Chapter Nine
News Article — State published as The State — April 6 1952 — p39Corroborating newspaper recordPoston Family History — Chapter Nine
Photograph of Ruth WestVisual family recordPoston Family History — Chapter Nine
West–Poston Marriage — The State, April 7, 1952Corroborating newspaper recordPoston Family History — Chapter Nine

Machine-readable exports

The archive exposes a compact backlink dataset at /data/citation-backlinks.json. The corresponding chapter-to-source graph is published by PostonSouthCarolina.com at citation-graph.json.

Continue the evidence trail

Evidence matrix Documentary Record Center PostonSouthCarolina.com citation index