Ken You are right to proceed with caution. I think you were referring to a match on World Ancestry Tree at Ancestry.com. I would go to Rootsweb.com and search for the name of the matching individual. They access the same trees as Ancestry.com but I prefer Rootswebs search engine and format. I would look for the following things. 1 Does the family tree include sources other then references to family trees found on the internet? Vital records, Wills, Deeds, or published sources. 2 Does the family tree include notes, additional information about the individual? This is a sign that the submitter has done their own research. 3 With the new found names I would do my own research. Can I find documents that verify what is on the tree? At some point my confidence level would be high enough that I would be willing to accept the rest of the tree but I would still try do find documentation supporting the tree all the way back. World Family Tree provides the name of the submitter and the email address in script that they used when they posted the tree. You can also add a “Postum” note to the name of the individual that is a match. The submitter will be notified. Curt Miller -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Ken Everard" <everardk@comcast.net> > Yesterday with all the help I got on line I became exhilarated for several > reasons. > > First, so many people responded to several of my questions that I was stunned by > the generosity and helpfulness of so many people working to help all of us. > What a great team we are all playing with. > > Second, when I keyed my newly found great great grandparents into my Family Tree > Maker, it connected immediately to another Sherman genealogy program, which I > believe was World Ancestry. It connects with my GG grandparents perfectly thus > far. In fact that connection has more information than I have at this point. > Believe it or not this Sherman ancestry goes back to the year 1352 in Suffolk > County, England. That took my breath away. Obviously I am cautious about the > authenticity of the data so I have a question for the group. I have not yet > said yes to connecting that family to mine. CAUTION imposed. > > What advice might you offer before I connect this unknown program to my family > tree? > > How would I contact the genealogist in charge of that program on FTM? > > Ken > > > ==== NJ-GSNJ Mailing List ==== > GSNJ Newsletter: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgsnj/newsletter.html > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

Curt, we are in full agreement. Here are my answers to your questions that follow yours. > Ken > > You are right to proceed with caution. I think you were referring to a > match on World Ancestry Tree at Ancestry.com. I would go to Rootsweb.com > and search for the name of the matching individual. They access the same > trees as Ancestry.com but I prefer Rootswebs search engine and format. I > would look for the following things. OK, I'll give that a try to see what comes up. Good suggestion. > > 1 Does the family tree include sources other then references to family > trees found on the internet? Vital records, Wills, Deeds, or published > sources. NO > > 2 Does the family tree include notes, additional information about the > individual? This is a sign that the submitter has done their own > research. NONE PROVIDED > > 3 With the new found names I would do my own research. Can I find > documents that verify what is on the tree? At some point my confidence > level would be high enough that I would be willing to accept the rest of > the tree but I would still try do find documentation supporting the tree > all the way back. THIS SUGGESTION IS MY FIRST APPROACH TO RESOLVING THE > POSSIBLE CONNECTION. IF WE HAVE DIFFERENT RESULTS, THEN I KNOW ENOUGH TO > IGNORE HIS OR HER APPROACH. > > World Family Tree provides the name of the submitter and the email address > in script that they used when they posted the tree. You can also add a > "Postum" note to the name of the individual that is a match. The > submitter will be notified> I HAVE NOT GONE TO THAT SITE IN SOME YEARS. > THANKS FOR THE REMINDER. I'LL GIVE THAT A SHOT SHORTLY. KEN > Curt Miller > > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "Ken Everard" <everardk@comcast.net> > >> Yesterday with all the help I got on line I became exhilarated for >> several >> reasons. >> >> First, so many people responded to several of my questions that I was >> stunned by >> the generosity and helpfulness of so many people working to help all of >> us. >> What a great team we are all playing with. >> >> Second, when I keyed my newly found great great grandparents into my >> Family Tree >> Maker, it connected immediately to another Sherman genealogy program, >> which I >> believe was World Ancestry. It connects with my GG grandparents perfectly >> thus >> far. In fact that connection has more information than I have at this >> point. >> Believe it or not this Sherman ancestry goes back to the year 1352 in >> Suffolk >> County, England. That took my breath away. Obviously I am cautious about >> the >> authenticity of the data so I have a question for the group. I have not >> yet >> said yes to connecting that family to mine. CAUTION imposed. >> >> What advice might you offer before I connect this unknown program to my >> family >> tree? >> >> How would I contact the genealogist in charge of that program on FTM? >> >> Ken >> >> >> ==== NJ-GSNJ Mailing List ==== >> GSNJ Newsletter: >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgsnj/newsletter.html >> >> ============================== >> Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >> New content added every business day. Learn more: >> http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >> > > > ==== NJ-GSNJ Mailing List ==== > Visit our Collections Guide: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgsnj/collectionguide.html > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >