Right on Virginia I agree with everything you said. Eileen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernard Humphrey" <bhumphre@nycap.rr.com> To: <IRL-LIMERICK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:35 PM Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] Sources & Mormons > As a retired librarian, I feel compelled to put in my 2 cents. > When you talk about Mormon > records, you are talking about TWO different sources!!!! They have made it their business to photocopy church and civil records all over the world. They > are photographs of the originals. > They are the real deal! Anyone > who claims to be into genealogy > who has NOT looked into using > them for so-called religious reasons is missing some amazing sources. I did genealogy for 20 years in pre- > Internet years before latching > onto their wonderful resources! > Last year I got Italian civil records > from my grandparents' home towns. This year it was church > records from Canada. Only this > week I found a marriage in 1835 > they I had always assumed took > place in Ireland! All the church and civil records I have borrowed from them have turned out to be gold mines for me. They have never spoken to me about their religion, have never handed me religious literature, and certainly have never tried to convert me in any way. > Now for the OTHER sources. > Mormons are required to research > their family backgrounds. Many > of them do so with little or no > enthusiasm. I suspect they gladly make inaccurate assumptions, submit them, and > feel their obligations are fulfilled. > I personally would never copy > anybody's submitted records into > my own! You MUST know your > source for every fact. When you > find a family tree submitted on line, YOU DON'T KNOW THEIR > SOURCES. The Mormons are > no more guilty than any of the > people of ancestry.com for submitting errors in family trees! > The rule of thumb should be--if > you don't know the proof behind > a statement, don't accept it as > fact! Contact the submitter and > find out what documentation they > obtained first! > Virginia Humphrey > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message