> I've enjoyed the recent posts and want to share my opinion, worth 2 > cents or less. > > I LOVE RootsWeb's worldconnect project. I've been at this about > seven years and have found it to be the best FREE resource > available. I've discovered many distant cousins and additions to > the lines that interest me. But, so many of my cousins make error > filled multiple posts to worldconnect and have no interest in > correcting them or feign ignorance about how to remove prior posts > they have already found are incorrect. > > Sharing info is great and I'm delighted to do that, but my info at > worldconnect is NOT downloadable. Certainly it is copyable, but I'm > the only one who can download my file. Worldconnect provides me a > backup file if I have a disaster on my computer but it does not > provide "name collectors" a file to download and add to their own > files. My file at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ can > be found by using the key word search for "mckee-main". I really > like the search capabilities at worldconnect and have found them to > be superior to searching at Ancestry.com. > > Providing sources is tedious, time consuming and yet justifiably > expected by many. I'm lazy, so to keyboard into the computer that I > have neither of my parents birth certificates but do have old US > passports showing date and place of birth for both of them seems > like too much work. > > http://homepage.mac.com/mmmain/c_main1774/ is a web page I created > to share information about my brick wall and to solicit information. > Some of the information there has citations so others can find it > and some are just images to be believed or not. > > Again, I've enjoyed the discussion and just wanted to offer my view, > biased as it is. > > Mac Main <[email protected]> In my mind the above is part of what this group is about. Obviously it has increased the input and I hope I'm not the only one who has learned something. Hugh