Hi, Since the end of April, I have posted querys about my family lines. Through those queries, I have found three distant cousins who I didn't know existed and they have helped fill some of the blanks I didn't have. On one of my family lines, a man answered my email who had access to a genealogy book of the surname I was searching gave me the information I needed. When you network your findings with others, it should make you feel good that you helped them make their family connection. Also folks out there cannot travel to be able to search the records themselves. One person answered my query, she is personally travelling to the area where to one of my brickwalls of a grandfather had lived to help me make that final connection. It is a give and take situation but look on the bright side you may have helped someone. I will leave these two quotes I found last month on one of my mailing list. "Genealogy, the only hobby where the dead people can excite you." "If your family doesn't fork, you might be a Redneck." Jeff Foxworthy Pat Jerry Dafoe wrote: > > Hi, > I have been into genealogy for about 15 yrs and have a large library > of data that I have collected about my ancestors. Most of this material has > been gathered by going out into the field, searching through Federal Census > , digging into county records etc. I decided to go internet as I thought > it would be an ideal way of communicating , getting in touch with those who > may be researching the same family, it would evolve less travel etc. > Now I set back and analyze what I have found viva the internet and I > doubt it is more that 1% of what I have. > There are many peeves I have about genealogy by internet and I was wondering > what others thought about it. > Some of my peeves are: > (1) Why are researchers so reluctant to share their data? > (2) Why is it when you think you have a connection, you never hear from > them again? > (3) Why do they say they will cooperate and then don't ? > I have many others but I would like to know your opinions on the subject. > so > How fruitful has genealogy on the net been for you and how can we improve > it? > > ==== GEN-NYS Mailing List ==== > Have you considered joining the Rootsweb Genealogical Data > Cooperative? > http://www.rootsweb.com/