>Resent-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:41:41 -0700 (PDT) >Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 21:40:23 -0400 >From: "Steven J. Coker" <cokers@awod.com> >Reply-To: carolina@yours.com >Organization: http://collectiblesbyjeannine.com/ >X-Accept-Language: en-US,en >Old-To: SCRoots <SCRoots-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Technology In Genealogical Research >Resent-Message-ID: <nVNClD.A.NFB.U9gu3@bl-11.rootsweb.com> >To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/10095 >X-Loop: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: SCROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com > >Standards For Use Of Technology In Genealogical Research >Recommended by the National Genealogical Society > >1. Genealogists take full responsibility for their work. > >2. Be mindful that computers are tools. > >3. Learn the capabilities and limits of equipment and software. Use them only >when they are appropriate tools for the purpose. > >4. Refuse to let computer software automatically embellish the work. > >5. Treat compiled information from on-line sources or digital data bases like >information from other published sources. Useful primarily as a guide to >locating original records, but not as evidence for a conclusion or assertion. > >6. Accept digital images or enhancements of an original record as a satisfactory >substitute for the original only when there is reasonable assurance that the >image accurately reproduces the unaltered original. > >7. Cite sources for data obtained on-line or from digital media with the same >care appropriate for sources on paper and other traditional media. > >8. Enter data into a digital database only when its source can remain associated >with it. > >9. Always cite the sources for information or data posted on-line or sent to >others. > >10. Name the author of a digital file as its immediate source. Credit original >sources cited within the file. [Note well the distinction between original >sources and immediate sources.] > >11. Preserve the integrity of data bases by evaluating the reliability of >downloaded data before incorporating it. > >12. Whenever altering digital data, provide a description of the change that >will accompany the altered data whenever it is shared with others. > >13. Actively oppose the proliferation of error, rumor, and fraud by personally >verifying or correcting information, or clearly noting it as unverified, before >passing it on to others. > >14. Treat people on-line as courteously and civilly as they should be treated in >person. Do not allow the relative anonymity of the medium to degrade common >practices of etiquette. > >15. Accept that technology has not changed the principles of genealogical >research, only some of the tools and procedures. > >Copyright © 1997 by the National Genealogical Society. Permission is granted to >copy or publish this material provided it is reproduced in its entirety, >including this notice. > >-- > > >==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > ********** QUOTING SHOULD END ABOVE THIS LINE ********** >Disclaimer: All emails come without guarantees or warranties, either >expressed or implied. Similarities to reality are entirely coincidental. >Steven J. Coker, SCRoots Manager, P.O. Box 359, Charleston, SC 29402 >scroots@geocities.com, http://www.scroots.org/ > >============================== >Share your family tree with loved ones through a FREE private website at >MyFamily.com! >Get started today at http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWText1 > > > Searching for: Acton, Bailey, Bartle, Carpenter, Hannah, Hertzog, Hillary, Holland, Mackay, Matheson, Page, Reynolds, Ridenour/Reitenaurer, Shadwick, Stoner, Wollet.