This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ce2128 Surnames: Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.monroe/2290/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Ancestry is similar to the LDS Ancestral files. No sort of proof or documentation is required to 'prove' the lines submitted. So, we must treat all undocumented information as clues ONLY, to be proved or disproved with our own research...that is, with primary records such as birth, death, baptismal, marriage, church, tax, census, etc....this sort of record, while certainly not without error, is the best we have, and necessary for something to be accepted as fact. (a secondary resource isn't sufficient...that is, a person/date, etc found in a biography, county history, etc.....only an actual record of an event is primary. If you find a secondary resource, then you must find primary documentation, proving the event.) In earlier times, family names were very important to a new parent........many wished to have, for instance, a daughter named after a grandmother....when little Mary #1 died, in infancy, the next baby girl might also be named Mary. The important thing was not that the name had already been 'given' to a baby, but for there was a child named for Mother. This was a not uncommon occurrence in the 1700s....I had a family that actually had 3 infant girls given the same name. Sandra Hello Your Name & Other Are Listed On Mailing List For Genealogy Question For Ancestry & Rootsweb & Quakers Was Wandering If You Can Answer Some Question For My Family Since Family Just Started Research Since My Family Used Ancestry & Rootsweb For There Research [1] My Family Used Ancestry Census As Document Since That Is All We Have To Go By. We Do Have Family Birth And Death Records And Family Bible And Family Obituary And Family Pictures For Relatives And The Census Has The Same Data As Our Record So Was Wandering If Our Family Can Count Document From Ancestry [2] Also Several Relatives Have Rootsweb Which We Used As Document Also Has The Same Dates As Our Family Record [3] My Family Are Quakers Do You Know What The Meeting Records Mean On Ancestry Since My Family Data And History Is Listed But Family Does Not Understand The Writing They Wrote And What It All Means . And If You And Your Family Can Explain To My Family About Genealogy Research And About Family Document And! Family Website On Rootsweb And Ancestry Census For Family Record And Quakers Writing We Would Appreciate Knowing Thank You Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.