What amazes me the most about genealogists is EVERYBODY from Missouri is related to one of Jesse James outlaws or Jesse or Frank James. EVERYBODY from Tennessee has Cherokee Indian blood or is related to Andrew Jackson. ALL southerners of course fought for the South. And NOBODY"s ancestors were just plain every day people who worked hard for a living. On 1/15/08, brenda parker <fairplay1951@gmail.com> wrote: > > And people copy things right out of books onto the web/ancestry.com > > On 1/14/08, Texas Gen <texas.gen@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > John wrote: > > > In my experience the trees you find at Ancestry.com<http://ancestry.com/>aren't any more > > > reliable or better cited than the ones at the LDS site. > > > > I don't mean to diminish the efforts of those who want to share their > > research on Ancestry, but I agree with you. When I am absolutely > > certain > > that the tree has an error, I write a [I hope] gracious Post-It to the > > relevant page. I thank them for sharing their research, and then > > mention > > the different information that I have and its source. Sometimes the > > author > > makes the correction, sometimes not. Sometimes the author makes the > > correction, citing me and my own source(s), which is considerate. > > > > Unfortunately we get erroneous information and pass it around so much > > that > > it is finally taken as gospel because it appears in so many places. > > > > Regards, > > > > Donna > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ALT-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > Proud member of IBSSG -- Proud member of IBSSG