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What is a Career Narrative (CN), and how does it differ from the personification record for the same individual?

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What is a Career Narrative (CN), and how does it differ from the personification record for the same individual?

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Early in the development of the CCEd, it became apparent that our efforts to include as many clerical career events as possible necessitated the uploading of records which overlapped in their coverage. Not only did this yield duplicate records, but also in many cases we collected records of different phases of a single process: for example, the appointment of a clergyman to a vicarage involved subscription to oaths, presentation to the living, institution, and induction. Each of these stages might occur on a different date, while a ‘subscription’ or presentation, for example, are less certain evidence that the appointment actually took place than an institution or induction. Most historians would regard the ‘institution’ as marking the effective date on which the appointment took place. Matters are even more complicated when it comes to establishing the date at which a clergyman left a position. In some cases we have a resignation, but more often we only have the evidence provided by t

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