Multiple fact citations

In what is sure to be yet another post that most will find uninteresting, but which serves to clarify my approach as I go through the documentation process of the Genealogy Project, today's discussion will be around how I document multiple citations of the same or similar information within a single source document, as frequently occurs in family histories.  There are two particular choices that I have made here.

1.  When the source contains similar, non-conflicting information in two separate places, I do not cite both pages in the citation.  For example, if the family history first mentions the person on page 27 as a child, and then proceeds to give the details of the family on page 58, the citation in the Genealogy Project will only reflect the first mention, in this case, page 27.  While this is not entirely correct, I do this primarily because (1) if you have the source, you should be able to find the first reference, and then determine where the others might be, and (2) for database citation purposes, adding page numbers every time the same fact is cited makes the source citations unnecessarily large.

However, if the source gives a name as, say, Catherine Evelyn Smith on page 27, and then states the name as Kathleen Evelyn Smith on page 58, this will result in two separate citations, to reflect the disparate pieces of information.

2.  The corollary to this rule is this - there is also only one citation for similar, non-contradicting information within a single source.  For example, if in one place, the source states that an individual was born in 1834, and in a second location states that the person was born on May 3, 1834, there is a single citation for May 3, 1834.  Where there is differing information within the same source, both pages are separately cited.  Again, I do this for much the same reasons as previously.  Additionally, adding multiple citations for variations on the same set of facts from a single source does little to help ascertain the veracity of that set of facts when evaluating all facts about the individual as a whole.  Accordingly, I prefer to treat the fact as the best representation that could be obtained from the source, citing accordingly.

I'd be curious to hear how others deal with the issue.