A little while back someone raised the issue of the veracity of the information that is presented in published CHASE geneaologies such as the 1933-1934 NEHGR articles "Some Descendants of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth." I happened upon an informative article addressing the subject of reviewing and evaluating existing scholarship in the area of New England ancestors like the Chase family. The article is entitled "Details, Details, Details: Reviewing Existing Scholarship for Alcock Origins" by the eminent genealogist Patricia Law Hatchez, CG, in the September 1997 issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (Vol. 88, No. 1). In this article she notes that the wealth of scholarship we sometimes find on our New England ancestors "is most likely to trip up 'lucky' New England genealogists. Those who find publications by eminent genealogists--replete with birth dates, names of spouses, mentions of sources, and erudite discussions--are not likely to believe that the author has missed something or erred...[and] see no need to compulsively track down the cited sources, study the originals themselves, look for confirming--and conflicting--evidence, and question every conclusion. Instead, they blithely continue 'collecting' ancestors, comfortable that they have cited a respected source. What is wrong with this approach? Many early conclusions were drawn by researchers in a time when citation standards and evaluation practices were less rigorous now. Furthermore, the records accessible in the past were only a small fraction of what is readily available to researchers today..." The author discusses and illustrates a research method that can be used in New England and other genealogical research. I found it well worth the read and thought I'd mention it to everyone. I find it especially helpful in trying to find the family of my CHASE ancestor, William H. Chase, who was born in Austerlitz, Columbia County NY in 1814, where there is a large CHASE family enumerated in "Some Descendants of William Chase..." who I suspect are related somehow to my William. In going over primary sources for this family, however, I am finding a number of serious potential errors in this work. Others who have written here about similar errors they've found in this and other published genealogies concerning their ancestors may find this a helpful read. Rebecca Laird