This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Byars Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/QJH.2ACIB/239.1 Message Board Post: To all, I am new to this digest and may be raising an old issue. I do not know where else to find an answer, so I'll risk irritating someone. I find much of interest in the postings. What I do not find is any documentation. I don't know how to avoid endless errata and msgs trying to keep track of the new (to me) data I see here. I do not, personally, accept a simple e-mail msg as a "source". To me, e-mail is rather a convient way of talking with other researchers. The conversations themselves do not provide what I consider adequate or "proper" documentation. I have been given "proof" that my father, Raymond Burnaman BYARS, died in WWII --- two years before my birth... which leaves my four younger siblings wondering who that man sharing my mothers bedroom was. In any case, what is the proper/accepted manner here to request documentation of given facts? For instance I find Lloyd's information about James Henry BYARS' (my sixth great grandfather) second wife very interesting, but cannot appropriately add the material to my database without documentation. Might it not be beneficial to post sources with the material in the first place? Thanks for any help with this, Steve Byars