From: "Barb & Harry Blott" <[email protected]> > Reading the comments from a few people on the list regarding your > e-mails to me :- > > I rest my case. > > Regards > Harry Harry, I am afraid that neither you nor they understand me or what I am talking about, You are obviously a beginner and I am an expert and a professional. These lists are mostly populated by beginners who have difficulty in understanding what those of us who have been in genealogy and family history a very long time are trying to do in endeavouring to show them how PROPER research is conducted. I do not see genealogy as simply hanging around on mailing lists and asking naïve questions or expecting others to do look-ups for them. That is the equivalent of being in a kindergarten class for 5-year-olds on their first day at school and those who do this are simply playing at it with no real understanding of what they are doing. To me genealogy is an academic discipline that needs to be undertaken seriously and requires training, knowledge and, above all, experience. This requires extensive knowledge of records, resources and where to find them, how to assemble, assess and analyse evidence, how to recognise the wheat from the chaff, how to know when something is right and when it's blatantly wrong, how to build a pedigree carefully and with evidence to back it. In brief, it's the difference between complete amateurs and seasoned professionals. I rest my case, and I can only hope that one day you may acquire the experience and intelligence to understand it. -- Roy Stockdill Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE