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