Hi, listers: GEDCOM - what is this acronym short for? Also, I want to ask this question: I've contacted a couple of people regarding the GEDCOM they have provided to World Search on rootsweb.com. Both of these contact people really didn't know the people they had listed on their GEDCOM's. One even told me that she didn't know that person had a different father -- this was in response to a 5 children's names, with 4 different surnames. She couldn't tell me anything, but said she would relay my message to someone who could. How can people put anything or anyone on their GEDCOM's -- often times hundreds or thousands of names, they don't even know? Well, at least the two above had viable e-mail addresses. A lot of contact people with GEDCOM's don't have viable e-mail addresses for contact. Thanks for reading. Cyrille Doutherd ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
> >How can people put anything or anyone on their GEDCOM's -- often times >hundreds or thousands of names, they don't even know? I am not sure what the true answer to this question is but I can tell you what happened to some information I shared. I shared a GEDCOM with someone, thankfully I only sent 2 generations along with notes on my research which were incorporated by the genealogy program. About a month ago I found a connection to my gg-grandfather and got really excited until I found that the information was information that I had shared with someone else. The person who eventually used it did not bother to document or confirm my information just accepted it as "truth" and linked my family to hers. She may in this case be correct but the facts are not all in and a lot more has to be done to "prove" the connection. The moral of the story is: Be careful what you share and how much. Be sure to privitize information on living individuals. I saw information on living people in this file and I know they would be highly upset to know that their privacy has not been protected. Fortunately they are not my family or I would have to find a new one. Do practice safety in sharing!! I am sorry this is a little off topic but we do need to watch out for each other and this is part of it. >________________________________________________________________ >GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! >Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! >Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > >==== AGS Mailing List ==== >Please do not forward or cross post messages to this list or from this >list without the permission of the original author. ~~~Anita~~~ The Key to ending frustration is to know that "This Too Shall Pass!!"