I took a program in archives while doing my Library Science degree. In it, I I ran across a way to gather people’s recollections of their own lives called “oral history”. With a tape recorder in hand, you record the remembrances of a person and this becomes their “history”. The thing is — even when these are very personal recollections, they need to be corroborated! Even remembering exact dates of marriages, births and deaths can be less than accurate!
So, I got an email reminding me that my “70’s picture” of the four Baker brothers was actually an “80’s” picture.
We all need corrobortators!!