In a message dated 7/12/2000 8:32:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, HudsonK@aol.com writes: << I am a stickler for documentation but many are not. You will find many people use what they find on the internet as "their genealogy" and never step foot or mail a letter to a court house etc. Some will use info they received in snail mail and never document it. Or they take "handed down" family info and never document it. >> Kathy, True, true, true!!! The same goes for stuff in the IGI and Ancestor File. Those that submit the info may not use references, or double check things (one of my greats said he was born in 1885, 86, 87, and 89. Good think I didn't believe the first one I saw!) As for verifying others....YES, this needs to be done. I was given a chart that another one of my greats made in the 1950's. He died when I was 3, so I have no memory of him. But I have the pedigree chart he made. I started verifying it. I cannot verify what he states as his great-gpa. I think I know where he got the info, but he didn't get 2 sources (which is what you do when you don't have a primary source). His source was incorrect (we have so many more records available now than in the 1950's). Yet, I can verify the info past that fella and the cousins on the side. It all checks out except that one link. On another line, some family researcher had my 3G g-ma's uncle listed as her father. That was repeated over and over by others in the family who didn't verify the research. That went on for 30 years. If I would have believed it, I would have been barking up the wrong tree! LOL So double check everything! And when you're done doing that, go back and look at it again in a few years! I'm human, I've errored or just overlooked things. Cheri M. Torrance, CA