Here's a perfect example as to why we should not accept as fact what we find on the Internet or what is posted on these Lists without making an effort to check it out for ourselves. Sometime ago, the following was posted to this List: 1850 census for Muscogee County, GA, in the household of Richard Sizemore. Info is as follows: Richard Sizemore 25 M Farmer South Carolina Mary Sizemore 22 F Talbott County, Georgia Sarah M. Sizemore 5/12 F Muscogee County, Georgia Jackson Scarborough 24 M Laborer Burke County, Georgia Eliza Scarborough 33 F Jefferson County, Georgia George Scarborough 14 M Emanuel County, Georgia Samuel H. Scarborough 10 M Muscogee County, Georgia William A. Scarborough 7 M Muscogee County, Georgia Lucy A. Scarborough 4 F Muscogee County, Georgia James W. Scarborough 2 M Muscogee County, Georgia I have been beating my head against a wall trying to figure out who the father of George could have been since I didn't think Jackson could have fathered him at age 10, or even Samuel at age 14; William at age 17 was pushing it. So who was the father of Eliza's first children? Was she married before Jackson, or were they illegitimate? Today I checked this out for myself and found Jackson's age was listed as 34, nor 24. Ten years in a person's age makes a lot of difference in determining parentage. This was probably just a typo on the part of the person who posted it, but we all need to be careful about copying stuff to our files. Olivia -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 39001 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message
I agree- all we can do is look at the information to give us idea where that family have lived & search ourself. That is what I do.I take the info and recheck it. Cause I have found so many errors. That is whay it has taken me about 16 years ( not steady) to do my husband's line. FLorence Creasy ________________________________ From: Olivia & Larry Braddy <olbraddy@pineland.net> To: gaeMANUE@rootsweb.com Sent: Thu, January 28, 2010 10:32:51 AM Subject: [GAEMANUE] Scarborough Here's a perfect example as to why we should not accept as fact what we find on the Internet or what is posted on these Lists without making an effort to check it out for ourselves. Sometime ago, the following was posted to this List: 1850 census for Muscogee County, GA, in the household of Richard Sizemore. Info is as follows: Richard Sizemore 25 M Farmer South Carolina Mary Sizemore 22 F Talbott County, Georgia Sarah M. Sizemore 5/12 F Muscogee County, Georgia Jackson Scarborough 24 M Laborer Burke County, Georgia Eliza Scarborough 33 F Jefferson County, Georgia George Scarborough 14 M Emanuel County, Georgia Samuel H. Scarborough 10 M Muscogee County, Georgia William A. Scarborough 7 M Muscogee County, Georgia Lucy A. Scarborough 4 F Muscogee County, Georgia James W. Scarborough 2 M Muscogee County, Georgia I have been beating my head against a wall trying to figure out who the father of George could have been since I didn't think Jackson could have fathered him at age 10, or even Samuel at age 14; William at age 17 was pushing it. So who was the father of Eliza's first children? Was she married before Jackson, or were they illegitimate? Today I checked this out for myself and found Jackson's age was listed as 34, nor 24. Ten years in a person's age makes a lot of difference in determining parentage. This was probably just a typo on the part of the person who posted it, but we all need to be careful about copying stuff to our files. Olivia -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 39001 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message Emanuel County GaGenWeb http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GAEMANUE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Very true on double checking any info found on the www,,, typos, etc can easily be made. I occasionly get corrections on my 24,000 ancestor World Connect Site in the "post-em" feature and I really appreciate that people take the time to write a few lines about the error and give me the correct info to help future researchers from taking my erred info as fact. I also do the same when I find flawed info in others work, one of these years online flawed info might gradually be phased out with a nice correction note to the person trying to help everyone but inadverantly making a human mistake. Olivia, as long as you have been at this hobby I'm sure you took a few minutes to go back to the post and write a nice note to the poster about the error and give him the right info so the following is not meant for you. In my experinces in this hobby over the years I would a thousand times rather get a nice note of correction on my errors than someone that finds my error to not bring it to my attention and then take much more time to write a put down and reprimand about my error to the whole list. That practice will make me and probably make other well intentioned people, trying to help others, hesitant to put their info on the www for fear of being chatised. Imo it's easier, and takes less time, to politely help someone that's posted bad info online than it is to point fingers and get into a gotcha thing. But back on topic, everyone has known since day one doing this stuff that you "must" verify anything you find before spending many years on the wrong track. The internet is the best invention that ever came down the pike for us but it has it's flaws. jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olivia & Larry Braddy" <olbraddy@pineland.net> To: <gaeMANUE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:32 AM Subject: [GAEMANUE] Scarborough > Here's a perfect example as to why we should not accept as fact what we > find on the Internet or what is posted on these Lists without making an > effort to check it out for ourselves. > > Sometime ago, the following was posted to this List: > > 1850 census for Muscogee County, GA, in the household of Richard Sizemore. > Info is as follows: > > Richard Sizemore 25 M Farmer South Carolina > Mary Sizemore 22 F Talbott County, Georgia > Sarah M. Sizemore 5/12 F Muscogee County, Georgia > Jackson Scarborough 24 M Laborer Burke County, Georgia > Eliza Scarborough 33 F Jefferson County, Georgia > George Scarborough 14 M Emanuel County, Georgia > Samuel H. Scarborough 10 M Muscogee County, Georgia > William A. Scarborough 7 M Muscogee County, Georgia > Lucy A. Scarborough 4 F Muscogee County, Georgia > James W. Scarborough 2 M Muscogee County, Georgia > > I have been beating my head against a wall trying to figure out who the > father of George could have been since I didn't think Jackson could have > fathered him at age 10, or even Samuel at age 14; William at age 17 was > pushing it. So who was the father of Eliza's first children? Was she > married before Jackson, or were they illegitimate? > > Today I checked this out for myself and found Jackson's age was listed as > 34, nor 24. Ten years in a person's age makes a lot of difference in > determining parentage. This was probably just a typo on the part of the > person who posted it, but we all need to be careful about copying stuff to > our files. > > Olivia > > -- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. > We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. > SPAMfighter has removed 39001 of my spam emails to date. > Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len > > The Professional version does not have this message > Emanuel County GaGenWeb > http://www.thegagenweb.com/gaemanuel/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GAEMANUE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message