I ahve found many wrong things posted on my family names and even births that were to old of children to ages of parents. I have gone and done research my self and found in books more. I payed when I could not find enough imformation for researchers in the counties my ancestors are from and it sure does pay off. I found more that what was in Liburays and on the intermet. Donna Osborn

Alot of us get a start with other peoples information. We have found some of the people who wrote genealogy books 50 years ago were lazy, said they did the whole job and when they didn't know something they made up that someone died which wasn't true. Census takers asked neighbors and not the people they were keeping track of where they were from and ages. And then there was the fact people have told me that our ancestors didn't really care or keep track of ages. Some of them didn't even understand the use of a legal name and changed their name on every record. I have also found indexes are great for the english but they blew off even putting half my ancestors in the indexes. That is pretty pathetic. It didn't matter how well the census taker clearly wrote. Tracy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Osborn" <dosborn@pldi.net> To: <BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:22 PM Subject: [BAVARIA] Documenting or Copying > I ahve found many wrong things posted on my family names and even births that were to old of children to ages of parents. > > I have gone and done research my self and found in books more. I payed when I could not find enough imformation for researchers in the counties my ancestors are from and it sure does pay off. I found more that what was in Liburays and on the intermet. > > > Donna Osborn > > > ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== > Going on Vacation? Longer than 4 days? Go to > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/DEU/BAVARIA.html > to unsubscribe > >