At 09:37 PM 08/05/2001 , Patricia Oates wrote: >Susan > I accept your apology & I do understand what you are talking > about. What >I meant by finding it on line is how easy it was to come by. I live in TX >& before the internet would not have been able to access the will or the >bible records that were put on-line. Thank you Pat. Yes there are many wonderful things to be found online, bible records are the most important. Wills you can write to the court house for, census records are on microfilm etc.. But most bibles are in a bookcase in someones house, my GG-Grandpa's bible is in a box in my genealogy closet (formerly a linen closet). In the old days to know what it says you would have to find me but with the internet you can read it online on Shelby County. >I do not do my research on line but do use the wonderful work that has been >done by the people who spend many hours working & putting things out there >so we can use them. I have a hard time in the area I live in finding >material on the IL. area. As long as it is data yes, unless a family site documents sources then God only knows where they copied it from and if they copied it correctly. According to one of those 'I copied it online, and I would never copy anything wrong "genealogists"' who had a website, my son has 6 kids. I could be wrong but as far I know I only had one boy baby and he only lived 24 minutes, 6 kids in 24 minutes of life... What A Stud! LOL >It does worry me that so many will look at the DAR records & just accept >them as totally correct & find later they have the wrong ancestor. I guess >when this happens to your own ancestor it does upset you. >Pat Oates in TX. The LDS IGI is worse and that is supposedly all confirmed research that everyone should take as 100% fact and never question. Thankfully it isn't online, yet! >At 05:08 PM 8/3/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >At 09:45 PM 08/01/2001 , Patricia Oates wrote: > >>I was going to libraries before you were hatched. > >>Pat Oates > > > >Really? And when were you hatched? LOL > > > >I have to apologize Pat, and notice that I am doing it publicly? No excuse > >but after 5 years of this online genealogy stuff for USGenWeb (Happy > >Anniversary to me) and just enough psychology to be dangerous, my way of > >coping is to get it off my chest. All but one other time I first change the > >to to myself then I scream in email, then I narrow down my screaming then > >delete that email and answer nicely. Yep, I talk to myself and hey, it > >works for me most of the time, it would have worked this time too except > >family time happened and I forgot to change the to part so now I feel worse > >then when I started. > > > >Fact is my response wasn't to you, about DAR or anything more than this... > >I can't reach out and slap these "I found it online so I am a > >"genealogist"" ummmm people. Enough said. > > > > I am sorry Pat > > > >>At 09:12 PM 8/1/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >> >At 05:19 PM 08/01/2001 , Patricia Oates wrote: > >> >>It is a good idea to recheck the info the DAR has if you do not want the > >> >>wrong ancestor in your line. They have my 3rd GGrandfather as the >son of > >> >>a man who is not his father. They will just take anything I guess if > >> >>someone wants in the DAR. > >> >>This was so easy to prove wrong I was able to do it from home with info > >> >>gathered from the census & bible records over the internet. > >> >>Just check their info if you do not want the wrong person as your >ancestor. > >> >>Pat Oates > >> > > >> >Ummm.. Pat, the best idea is to get off your fanny and go to the library > >> >before you mouth off. You found whatever on some web site, well guess > >> >what? I am my Grandpas Mom and my Grandma is my daughter, and my brother > >> >is my Great Aunts kid and some idiot some day is going to say, I found it > >> >in a book and someone else typed it into a web page so it is fact. > >> > > >> >Be the solution, not the problem > >> >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> >Barry County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/barry.htm > >> >Gold Family Association http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gold/ > >> > > >> >Raising teenagers is a lot like nailing Jello to a tree > >> > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Barry County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/barry.htm > >Gold Family Association http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gold/ > > > >Cousins marrying cousins: A non-branching family tree > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry County MOGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/barry.htm Gold Family Association http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gold/ When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?