This is the reason I _do not_ put my information on the "net!!! Arlene in FL -----Original Message----- From: Charlene Pinkowski <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, May 8, 1999 9:42 AM Subject: Fw: Compilers Beware >-----Original Message----- >From: Deborah Cerasia <[email protected]> >Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 1:02 AM >Subject: Compilers Beware > > >There has been some discussion in recent days on several of the lists about >the importance of checking sources. I wasn't going to add my two cents but >after a visit to Ancestry.com tonight I feel I must. >Imagine my surprise to see much of my pedigree (that I had so generously >provided to another researcher) up for view with an error that had been >handed to me by a cousin who had already done much research on our family >lines. Fortunately for me I "checked" sources for my part of the line where >it diverged from his to the top of the line. Having already found errors in >Tanguay & Drouin I went to the source being birth /marriage/death >certificates as well as will, land records etc. In doing so I found another >error in Tanguay (with a correction in the tome of corrections to Tanguay by >Lebeouf) . I immediately notified all concerned especially since one >researcher who was a "cousin" from way back turned out not to be related at >all. >So imagine my surprise to see the error posted on a service available to all >spreading to Lord knows how many other genealogists, especially since it had >obviously been posted AFTER I had already informed the submitter with >details of the error. >Moral is - check those sources and don't believe everything you see just >because another researcher has "provided" the info. > > >Ciao! >Hasta Luego! >A Bientot! >D.Cerasia >[email protected] >Researching: CERASIA, NEVEAUX,MUSSEL,McCOMBE,SIMPSON plus a whole lot more! >Email if you think you might have a connection!! >