I've yet to put any of my work on the web. When there was only rootsweb, I would have been glad to do it. But after Ancestry.com took them over, I decided against it, because I figured my data would sooner or later belong to Ancestry, and people would have to pay to access it. Now with the recent messages regarding how things are becoming so messed up on Ancestry, I think I'm glad I haven't. Sam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chere Athey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 7:30 AM Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Excellent Point Made! Thank you, Ruth, for mentioning this. It's particularlay important for the new researcher. Fortunately I learned of "bad trees" early before making any drastic mistakes (like blending someone else's tree with mine) when I looked at a Thrasher tree someone had put on Ancestry that was riddled with errors. That tipped me off that not everyone is as meticulous as maybe they should be about what is added to a tree. Unfortunately, I learned the importance of VERIFYING after I had about 500 entries. Have since have been working on making that right but all (most) entered afterwards have a good deal of documentation (not my favorite thing to do, I must confess but oh so important). Cousin Linda attended a genealogy lecture early in our research and "Verifying Sources" was the theme and one of the gems she shared with us. It does bother me a little that some use another's tree as "documentation". ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message