Lisa & John, Have you thought of refusing the work of people unless they can send you the scanned or photo copied documents, supporting their lines. The DAR and SAR are successful because of stiff requirements. If a person can't support their theory, then forget it. It would be quite simple and simply unacceptable! Ardath

Yes, we considered that, but that is a two-edged sword. Much of the time info was documented with different sources, as many sources have conflicting info published. By doing that, we would be opening up ourselves to decide which source to go with, etc. Also, many of the researchers on our line have lots of sources, but just don't have it all put together in their computer files. We felt by demanding backup sources, we would be keeping very good research out of the project, and we didn't want to do that. There are mistakes in all our research somewhere, but if we knew all the answers, this would not be worth doing. I'm not sure if you are considering how much info we had to work on. In file #1 alone, there are over 6,000 names. This came about by merging at least 10 files that were huge. It took weeks just to get the duplicate people out of the files, as when merging files in FTM, it errs on the side of caution and leaves many duplicate people. Granted, not all the files were this big, but there are thousands of individuals making up these files. I lost track of the number of files we had sent in, but it was a huge response by this list. We even had some lines sent to us that were printed on paper, and we put those files together into computer files. We encouraged everyone to send their info, no matter the format or type. It was a great response and I think everyone worked very hard in getting all the info to us. I still think a central site, linking to all researcher's information individually, without merging or altering the files in any way is the best way to do this. Everyone has an equal say, and no one is put into the position of verifying the information, unless you are actually working on that line. The only problem with completely converting the entire project to that type of set-up is time. I know all the committee members are dealing with real life situations right now that prevent us from putting it together. Hopefully these situations will soon be dealt with and put behind us all, and maybe at that time, we can get back to work on this project. Lisa Check out my website at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/7502/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ardath Buckaway" <bqueen@compusmart.ab.ca> To: <HANCOCK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:48 PM Subject: [HANCOCK-L] Refused without documentation > Lisa & John, > > Have you thought of refusing the work of people unless they can send you the scanned or photo copied documents, supporting their lines. The DAR and SAR are successful because of stiff requirements. If a person can't support their theory, then forget it. It would be quite simple and simply unacceptable! > > Ardath > > > ==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > If you have a HANCOCK Genealogy Homepage, and would > like to have it listed on our Links page, send the URL to the > list, or to: JuliaFWood@aol.com >