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The potential destruction by sociologists and ethnologists of their research notes in order to remove any risk of their being requisitioned, thereby protecting the anonymity of interviewees, raises for historians the question of the verifiability of the findings, which is supposed to rest on systematic referencing to notes (either as footnotes or end notes). But instead of considering the current anonymization procedures used in the social sciences as a weakening of verifiability and an obstacle to the replicability of investigations, the confrontation between the historian and such procedures leads to a reconsideration of the genetic link that has established itself between historical science and the truth, separate from other sciences and for ideological ends.