I am truly apalled that these people in Lewis County would consider all our hard work junk....... If that is the case please unsubscibe me. I will continue on my own. Everyone makes mistakes. I wish I had a dime for every time I saw my Walker Ailes all over the net as "Walter Ailes" I would be so rich I would hire a professional genealogist to dig for me.... I don't think any of our members are dishonest and I DO NOT think our hour and hours of hard work is junk. If that is the opinion of these people KIN FOLKS that is sad and I really don't think I want to know them any way..... I have loved ones living in a tent in MS since the hurricane.... Things like that should be what keeps people awake at night... I will not clog the list with anymore extranious information as you so eloquently put it once. I hope I have posted some JUNK that some one could use They can stay in the family tree as far as I am concerned. Please unsubscribe me. Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [AILLS] Family > In a message dated 9/12/2005 2:50:31 PM Central Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > >> Some of us are passionate about posting the right info for the world to >> see. Some of what you find is not always correct but putting it out there >> also >> is a valuable tool in finding other researchers who may know something >> helpful. I believe that is how we all found each other. >> > This has raised a subject that I am passionate about and I can't keep from > weighing in on the topic. As Aills researchers and members of the list > who > mostly are family related on Rootsweb and on the MyFamily site, I > passionately > believe that we have a responsibility to each other and to newcomers who > are just > now searching for Aills, to be as accurate and credible as we can possibly > be. I want the Aills researchers to have a reputation of doing good > research > and posting credible information to the Web. > To deliberately deceive and mislead by posting information 'right or > wrong' in the hopes of getting contacts from people who want to dispute > what > they find, is just simply dishonest and selfish to me. How many people go > back > to see if information they have copied has been changed? They copy and > then > perpetuate a myth. Honest mistakes are made and people change those > mistakes > when it's pointed out like the girl who had Ables instead of Aills did. > That's > understandable. I'm sure she didn't deliberately use Ables so she would > get > contacts. > I beg you each to please disclaim guesses and possibilities by > adding > "possible," "assumed," of "guess" to your data if you post it to the Web. > I > have literately had people I've been in contact with since I started the > Lewis > Co. residents site refuse to have anything to do with our > [email protected] > because there has been so much junk posted to Aills on the Web. > We have worked hard since we came together and the purpose of coming > together was to find answers and solve mysteries. Let's please do the > best we > can in posting information to the Web and not just throw things out there. > You > just don't know who is going to believe what they find and add it to their > data that will later appear as fact and there's going to be nothing right > to be > found in the future. > Just adding those words of doubt will keep someone from believing > what > they find is credible researched information. We've worked hard to get it > right so let us please try to keep it as correct as we can. I think we > have a > responsibility to other members of the Aills research group and to our > ancestors to not create myths that we know are myths by throwing 'it' out > there. > Sorry, but I might get back on this soapbox again, sometime. :~) I > really am passionate in trying to be as correct as I can be in my own > data. > Sandra > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >