I think it's totally acceptable. People have different reasons for gathering this info, personally I'm doing it for fun but I think if someone wants "proof" they need to be willing to do the research themselves and not get mad at others who don't have the same goals they do. I could go on about people who send hate mail too, but that's beside the point. I've got Marthas and Sarahs, also, but all of my stuff is currently packed up (because I'm getting ready to move) and I can't remember if they're Belchers or something else. MG Connie J. Hickey wrote: > The information I have in my files on Martha, no more than you have, came > from the Ancestral File at LDS. Maybe you could find out who submitted it? > Unless it was you..<grin> > For anyone who does not know, LDS is online, at <www.familysearch.org> > > Rootsweb also has a site called Worldconnect that lets you upload your > gedcom to create a web site for free. They promise to never charge anyone > to use it and never to sell the info.. > > My gedcom is on there, but I WANT TO EMPHASIZE TO ANYONE WHO LOOKS AT IT. I > ADVERTISE ON MY SITE THAT IT IS A COLLECTION OF DATA, NOT A PROVEN > GENEALOGY. JUST HOPING THAT I T WILL GIVE SOMEONE A NAME OR PLACE OR DATE > TO HELP LEAD THEM TO THEIR OWN PROOF. > > DOES ANYONE THINK THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH DOING THAT? I SERIOUSLY > WANT TO KNOW BECAUSE I GOT SOME HATE MAIL FROM ANOTHER LINE BECAUSE OF SOME > ERRONEOUS MATERIAL ON THAT LINE. THAT THEY HAD PROVEN WAS WRONG. > > Please give me your opinion on this. Thanks. > Connie > > View my gedcom at: > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=cowbird > alternate e-mail: geaniebug7@yahoo.com > researching among others: > BELCHER,HICKEY, BAUGH, COOK, WHITLOCK, ARVIN, ALLEN, GIRTLEY/GIRDLER, > DEWITT, MULLINS, ELSWICK, POTTER, RAYBURN/REYBOURNES, COMBS, PHILLIPI, > DARNELL/DARNALL, VAUGHT, ETC. ETC. > > >Maybe someone will connect with my two Belcher women and give me an early > >Christmas present <grin>. Here is what little I know: > > >MARTHA BELCHER > > born: 1773 Franklin Co, VA > > married: 2 FEb 1789 Franklin Co, VA > > spouse: JAMES DILLON JR. > > died: Tazewell Co, VA > > parents: unknown > > > >SARAH BELCHER > > born: unknown > > married: unknown > > died: unknown > > spouse: PARRIS DILLON > > parents: unknown > > >The only documentation of SARAH BELCHER is on the death certificate of > >SARAH ELIZABETH DILLON, her daughter. > > >The information on MARTHA BELCHER is unconfirmed information from other > >researchers. > > ==== BELCHER Mailing List ==== > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > .........................BELCHER MAILING LIST.......................... > PLEASE DO NOT SEND ATTACHED FILES TO OUR LIST. MANY OLDER SYSTEMS WILL > NOT PROCESS THEM. YOU'RE ENCOURAGED TO PRIVATELY EXCHANGE THEM OFF LIST > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%