John wrote: > In my experience the trees you find at 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

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 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