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. 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. 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. 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 >