Hello, I too, am glad that someone brought this up! Documentation is a piece of paper, whether it be a birth certificate, Will, death cert or whatever. If I obtain a copy and send it to my cuzzin Butch, his copy is just as valid as my copy. No difference. It proves the same thing. When I say info on our site is documented, that doesn't necessarily mean it's our documentation, nor should it have to be. The info on our site is a compilation of many Davenport researchers. It is a DavenportFamily site, each person's work is documented by the submitter. I see verification of said documents. This in no way lessens our credibility as putting out the best info we can to the best of our knowledge. In my opinion and in my experience, working alone and documenting your own work, is a very lonely way to go. I've had more fun and met such wonderful people (cuzzins) doing things my way! I will never go back to solo work again. I didn't learn anything in genealogy classes because I didn't go. I wanted to know my family, so I started looking. I found more than I bargained for....lots and lots of cuzzins who without their help, we would never have gotten this far. Keep up the GREAT work cuzzins...and don't forget the documentation......cuzzin Teri

Thank you Terri for the very nice reply. I know I don't "pipe up" very often on the list, but I do read all the posts. I can promise you, I've picked the brains and file cabinets of everyone I know and my trusty scanner allows that my copy of a record is just as valid as the original. We also all know that documents are not always available, or still in existence. Sometimes they are just flat out wrong (after all, a census record is just a copy of other people's information by definition). If I post any information I have found, I not only hope for any corrections, I am willing to beg for them. We all want to get it right. Certainly, never take someone's conjectures for gospel, but also remember that group conjectures may be all you'll ever have. I too would never return to purely solo research again. I need the sounding board this forum and others provide. Keep up the good work, Danice Meunier Greenville, SC (and that's documented, lol) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 10:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [DAVENPORT] Research Hello, I too, am glad that someone brought this up! Documentation is a piece of paper, whether it be a birth certificate, Will, death cert or whatever. If I obtain a copy and send it to my cuzzin Butch, his copy is just as valid as my copy. No difference. It proves the same thing. When I say info on our site is documented, that doesn't necessarily mean it's our documentation, nor should it have to be. The info on our site is a compilation of many Davenport researchers. It is a DavenportFamily site, each person's work is documented by the submitter. I see verification of said documents. This in no way lessens our credibility as putting out the best info we can to the best of our knowledge. In my opinion and in my experience, working alone and documenting your own work, is a very lonely way to go. I've had more fun and met such wonderful people (cuzzins) doing things my way! I will never go back to solo work again. I didn't learn anything in genealogy classes because I didn't go. I wanted to know my family, so I started looking. I found more than I bargained for....lots and lots of cuzzins who without their help, we would never have gotten this far. Keep up the GREAT work cuzzins...and don't forget the documentation......cuzzin Teri ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== For instructions on unsubscribing or searching the list archives visit: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nvjack/davnport/group.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237