I posted Ms Cook's article 1st to stand on it's own. I have some thoughts of my own,as a long time genealogist,who has been on-line daily since late 1991. I do not search the web looking for errors, but there are very many. Document your research! Are there a higher % of errors on the web,than old fashioned paper research. Likely, because no experienced editors are reviewing web pages before they are posted, while books are edited. I heard the nationally know Everton GENEALOGIST family speak at a Clermont Co Genealogy meeting once promoting,among other things, newspaper research. How accurate are newspapers,or other media? If thing I noticed when joining Prodigy genealogy message boards in Jan, 1992, was experienced genealogists aiding others. EarlRoss@prodigy.net and AnnaW9241@aol.com answered my very 1st querie. They were aiding others then,and still do. When I left Prodigy,and moved to AOL.com, I couldn't believe how much worse the queries were,on average. We had mostly been un-timed on Prodigy;on AOL,they had been paying by the minute,til the time I JOINED. Queries made no attempt at who,what,where,why,and ?, but sometimes were just 1 word,the surname. Or,the surname,and a date,or a surname and a location. Anyway,much of the on-line genealogy I have been involved with since Jan 1992 has been of a "party-line' nature, as these rootsweb.com lists are. I seldom find myself checking individual's web sites, but I know some good ones. I rarely will import a gedcom of 1,000,000 bytes to get 1 name. Luckily, many experienced genealogists bought computers to run their genealogy programs. And they used them as typewriters and databases, but not as communications devices,and,now,not as research assistants. If you know experienced genealogists owning computers, who are not active in on-line genealogy,urge them to join us. In "the old days",research from an experienced genealogist traved often by US Mails, ans was seen by few. Get the experienced genealogists active in the world of "party-line" genealogy. Get them to be active "givers" to this hobby [addiction] of ours. Speaking for myself only, experienced simply means I have had more time to make more mistakes. Ms Cook wrote of many resources that have rarely been available to me, but this Internet thing has opened up many new things for me,nearly shut-in,to research. Use the best resources available to you. Likely ,the sources MS Cook has available pales to the researcher whose EMAIL to me mentioned her reserved parking places at the National Archives,and at the Va State Library. . Regardless of your sources,it means nothing if you do not document them for others. Many of you make rush trips to distant libraries. That is 1 time,for sure,that I would hire a genealogist long experience with that library,to aid me research. And I would tell her-him of my research problem beforehand. I'm not so sure family ledgends aren't sometimes the worst source. Every Davis family is akin to Jefferson Davis. Every Ball family from George Washington's mother. my own Hamilton's from Alexander Hamilton. And ,here in the Va Military District, many pioneer families have the ledgend the farm came from the pioneer originally fighting in the Rev War for Va. Few did. Worst, these ledgends are told us by our beloved ,sweet, grandmothers. And grandmother wouldn't tell us a fib. Must quit because a heavy Great Danes HEAD IS RESTING on my typing hand. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.