Lori, Thank you for putting a different perspective on this.  I have been writing to this woman for over a year. I know she's still working on this line because she has been posting things on a regular basis.  I just wish she would have the courtesy to at least respond to my emails.  Blessings, Rita Smallcombe Advertising/Marketing Director Mayfaire and Derbyshire Renaissance Festivals www.mayfaireren.com and www.derbyshirerenfaire.com Check out my art work at: www.pookafairystudio.com and our leather work at: www.highlandsleather.com CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!) ________________________________ From: Lori Lovelace <lori_lovelace@charter.net> To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, August 23, 2010 9:28:22 PM Subject: Re: [LL] irritated I will offer a defense of the person that has not revised their tree based on your comments.  When I first started, I used Ancestry.com and I am sure there are some wrong entries.  I know use FTM and need to publish to Ancestry.com to clean up that tree.  I had a family member contact me regarding something that I had listed for the Donalson family.  We exchanged a couple of emails and it is possible my entry is wrong but I don't want to clean anything up until I fully research the issue myself.  However, I have been very focused on the Lovelace family that it will be quite some time before I get back to that issue. So perhaps there is a Donalson family member that is quite irritated with me right now but it is not that I don't care but that I have other priorities right now that I am working on.  From my experience the majority of the members on Ancestry.com just click away and don't check sources or reasonableness of the trees that they are importing.  At the same time I have been stuck and took the risk on someone's tree later to find the necessary source documents to support that entry.  Public Trees can be both good and bad.  I would just focus on listing the sources for your tree because members that care like myself will pay attention and rely on your information rather than the other family. Lori Me > James Leonard > Holt > Lynn Boyd > Robey R > Archibald > Elias > JBL

At least you don't have someone that declares himself the complete authority and if you disagree or question any of their information then you have performed the unpardonable sin.  I tried to work with an individual who had a different slant on part of my distant family.  I thought that the interchange of ideas would be great.  It could allow us to explore the various possibilities.  I discovered in a hurry that this individual didn't want interchange.  He was right, any thing that didn't agree with his thoughts was wrong and there were no chance that he would ever change his information.  Well, I made a copy of this indivdual's information so that I could think about it and use it as a possibility but in retrospect, he had to jump loops in many cases to come to the conclusions that he did.  I also have had similar problems with my gggg-grandmother.  The Mormon site has an incorrect maiden name which has been published far and wide.  I have a deed from 1723 which shows her maiden name, who her father was, etc. but the erroneous information still persists.  I have another line where my relative married in Virginia and moved to Alabama.  The Virginia information shows clearly who her parents were but they picked up some stranger in Alabama and made him her father.  I had difficulty persuading the researcher even though I sent him the documentation.  Genealogy is practiced by too many people who want to be related to someone famous or something similar and really don't want to be genealogist.  Many of the Mormons have been known to be loose with their information just so that they could have someone to pray into Heaven.  Please don't get me wrong, there are good genealogists out there and this Lovelace list is definitely one that perpetuates the best.

What bothers me the most is a cousin of my Mothers who has the ONLY known picture of her Grandparents. Her Grandmother died two days before she was born so she never got to know her.  The cousin has 'graciously' sent me a copy of the photo. But it isn't a good one. I have asked her repeatedly over the years to PLEASE let me borrow it long enough to get a good scan and copy of it so I can pass it along. She REFUSES to part with it and has already stated that she will be donating all of her family research to a local library.  She married my Mothers cousin.....she isn't blood.  We are!      She found the pic in a purse that was my G Grandmothers that she somehow got ahold of.  Why can't she be NICE and share it with the rest of the family????  Blessings, Rita Smallcombe Advertising/Marketing Director Mayfaire and Derbyshire Renaissance Festivals www.mayfaireren.com and www.derbyshirerenfaire.com Check out my art work at: www.pookafairystudio.com and our leather work at: www.highlandsleather.com CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!) ________________________________ From: Harvey Bottoms <harveybottoms@sbcglobal.net> To: lovelace@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, August 24, 2010 10:30:28 AM Subject: Re: [LL] irritated At least you don't have someone that declares himself the complete authority and if you disagree or question any of their information then you have performed the unpardonable sin.  I tried to work with an individual who had a different slant on part of my distant family.  I thought that the interchange of ideas would be great.  It could allow us to explore the various possibilities.  I discovered in a hurry that this individual didn't want interchange.  He was right, any thing that didn't agree with his thoughts was wrong and there were no chance that he would ever change his information.  Well, I made a copy of this indivdual's information so that I could think about it and use it as a possibility but in retrospect, he had to jump loops in many cases to come to the conclusions that he did.  I also have had similar problems with my gggg-grandmother.  The Mormon site has an incorrect maiden name which has been published far and wide.  I have a deed from 1723 which shows her maiden name, who her father was, etc. but the erroneous information still persists.  I have another line where my relative married in Virginia and moved to Alabama.  The Virginia information shows clearly who her parents were but they picked up some stranger in Alabama and made him her father.  I had difficulty persuading the researcher even though I sent him the documentation.  Genealogy is practiced by too many people who want to be related to someone famous or something similar and really don't want to be genealogist.  Many of the Mormons have been known to be loose with their information just so that they could have someone to pray into Heaven.  Please don't get me wrong, there are good genealogists out there and this Lovelace list is definitely one that perpetuates the best. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOVELACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message