For what it's worth -- I'm seriously not attempting to be a "twit", for Martha2 does have a good point. This is assuming I'm reading her email intend correctly (which is most always debateable since email lacks the voice tones that most of us rely on for interpretive help). I'm just presenting a bit of a different view for some of us that tend to stick our fingers in to help a lot of folks sometimes.... as God forgive us, but we get busy and just act plain stupid sometimes! (Without mentioning any names, I know someone in this group that was up in the wee hours last nite working for this list and back up again early this morning and can't measure 'cause she can't see!) Using it as a source in a chart, or referencing it directly as I did (without clarification for which I apologized), I'd tend to agree with you wholeheartedly. In such a case, there are things such as call numbers, credits, page references, and such (one could make become a source instruction lesson) that should/could be used to make the source documentation valid and as accurate as possible. (For newbies, there are web sites that help one learn the "rules" of ancestry.) In simply mentioning the book in casual email conversation, so long as it is relatively clear what book one is talking about, I'm not so sure that I agree since we seldom call anything by it's "proper" name in this country. Having to lookup to write the 'proper' addressing of "The Heritage of Morgan County, Alabama, Limited First Edition, LOC#98-72631, ISBN 1-891647-19-9, published by Heritage Publishing Consultants, Clanton, Al., Walsworth Publishing, Inc.", to clarify exactly WHICH edition and/or publication of WHICH titled book you're mentioning everytime one writes an email would get pretty old rather fast -- particularly when one deals with numerous books. Most likely that would only tend to make most busy folks not bother to make *any* reference to any book to benefit anyone on a list. For instance, when this email came through I was busy looking up the Hunter name for the previous writer. Now that this has come up, I'm having second thoughts as I'm not sure I can afford to add on the additional time I see that would be required to further properly give the pages, paragraph and subject references for the 18 occasions of Hunter listed in the The Heritage of Morgan County, Alabama, Limited First Edition, LOC#98-72631, ISBN 1-891647-19-9, published by Heritage Publishing Consultants, Clanton, Al., Walsworth Publishing, Inc. index on p. 928. /me smacks Kathy with a gum wrapper for her oversite in leaving off the THICKNESS of The Heritage of Morgan County, Alabama, Limited First Edition, LOC#98-72631, ISBN 1-891647-19-9, published by Heritage Publishing Consultants, Clanton, Al., Walsworth Publishing, Inc. Ummm... lemme see... it's about a finger's length thick. :: grin :: Oh! And the cover is GREEN. Well... kinda sorta. Ooops.. there I go again. Using "it's". /me rolls her eyes and grins. Just teasing... and hopefully not offending anyone as that most certainly is not the intent. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martha2" <Martha2@hiwaay.net> To: <ALMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:13 AM Subject: [ALMORGAN] HERITAGE book > Speaking of accuracy, it is important that your source titles are > correct. So if you are referring to the Heritage of Morgan County, > Alabama book; please refer to it as that rather than the Morgan Co. > Heritage book or some other title. Thanks. > > > ==== ALMORGAN Mailing List ==== > USGenWeb Events: Conferences, Seminars, Fairs etc. http://www.genealogy.com Be sure to have your state's events posted to the site. > >