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    1. [KYBARREN] NEVER TRUST SECONDARY SOURCES - EVEN TODAY! AND A WARNING ...
    2. Sandi Gorin
    3. This is just too good to not pass on. Researchers always try to teach that we can't trust secondary sources (i.e. not seeing the source) but take it with a grain of salt and then try to prove/disprove it. It still holds true today. I have been having literally screaming fits over an inaccurate listing for me on the internet at whitepages.com. Within the last few weeks I have been overwhelmed with phone calls and letters addressed to someone I don't know at my address and with my phone #. I've tried everything to find the source and then found that on the above site, there is another family is listed at my address, with my phone #, then my listing, and then another one who likely is still me loused up. No one can do anything about it locally, everyone gets their information from the same few sources and it spreads like wildfire (like incorrect family trees on the internet). I finally broke down and contacted the other party - they've never lived here (I know, I've been her most of the life of the house) ...Finally I found a contact address for the internet site and submitted my request to dump off the other people. I should hear from them in 5-7 days - maybe! I told one of my daughters about it and she checked something out. She did a search for Franklin Gorin in KY. Well, according to the site, he is happily living at Mammoth Cave. Humm... he was born in 1798 and died in 1877 and I thought he was buried at Glasgow Municipal Cemetery. I guess his spirit lives on at the cave he owned in the 1830's; gee, I have some questions I'd like to ask him, guess I'll drive to the cave and pay him a visit! I thought you might get a chuckle out of that tale! My warning is that there are a lot of viruses going around since Valentine's Day is coming up (and another year older for me, sob). Some appear to be Valentine's cards from a dear friend or smaltzy messages. Rootsweb is catching the ones coming to the lists and I'm going in and deleting them so they won't go to the list. But, I've received some addressed to me personally so there are spammers out there. Be cautious when opening a card or a message like this. Just a heads up! Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html

    02/04/2008 01:23:46