This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wYX.2ACEB/816.1 Message Board Post: Jan, It is so refreshing to hear another voice in the wilderness! I have abandoned the soap box from which I used to preach the need for RESEARCH and SOURCE QUOTATIONS. It became apparent to me that most people have no interest in, and do not enjoy, the genealogical processes. They are content to collect dates and names from other people's work (?) and use them as if they were automatically true (even if they don't make sense). If you want another exercise in amusement/frustration, try contacting all of the people who have Guillaume Fouquets "ancestors" listed back for several generations. They not only cannot provide any sources other than listings they found on the Internet, they cannot justify why they think the old man's name was Guillaume Fouquet (other than the fact that it was listed thus in the Fuqua book). I have even had someone on this list copy a large portion of my web page, and present it on their own site as if it were their own. Considering the hours I spent building the site, my first reaction was one of anger. Upon further reflection, I realized that the individual involved has a whole different value system than mine, and making an issue of it would be a waste of time. Maybe I should find my soap box and spend some more time on it. I doubt if anything would change, but I might feel better. Frank