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Actually, under terminology advocated by the genealogical community, documents are not primary or secondary. Sources (which includes documents) are original or derivative, the information in them may be either primary, secondary, or often a mixture of both.
For example, an original death certificate and a published (derivative) book of abstracts of death certificates for a county would both contain primary information (the death date), and secondary information (the birth date of the deceased as given by one of their children).
In order to evaluate a source, you need to know and evaluate both original vs. derivative, and the information of primary vs. secondary.
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