In a message dated 4/16/2006 6:41:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Real genealogical research requires time, money, and patience. That is > what > researchers find so offensive about nonresearchers who post pedigrees. Barb and Peg, You bring forward two sides of the issue. But I suspect you are preaching to the choir. In my experience, many of the subscribers to lists like this are serious and long term researchers. People looking for an instant family tree don't spend much time on these lists except to make a posting or two hoping that someone has done the work for them. But this leads to why I am responding on-list rather than privately. Perhaps this can serve as a reminder that we can lead by example. When we respond to those inquiries we can give some sources or other background information so the other person can place it in context, perhaps even a word or two of explanation if the person is a "newbie." I recently saw on another list where a responder to an inquiry warned the first person not to include dates and places because someone might steal it. What good is the information without that? Better to not respond at all. Tony

Please give up this argument. We all started somewhere. I still remember the day someone told me they had found my dad on the Internet. I'd never even thought of genealogy before, and the result was that I went from having no family to having over a hundred cousins I didn't know I had -- truly a blessed event. In the time since, I'm amazed at how much I've learned and how much I realize I don't know -- it's been a very convoluted path. I most appreciate folks who put everything they have on the Internet, and that's what I do. I've learned that if there are sources, I need to check them out anyway, but at least I have a clue. I hate when someone throws out so-called facts without even a hint as to where they got them; I can't tell you how many hours I've spent running down other folk's dead ends. The goal is to find our ancestors, and the more researchers checking a line, the more opportunity there is to dig up information. The more we share our sources, and the more transcribed source materials we put up, the more chance we have of breaking down those brick walls and finding those blessed cousins. Just an opinion..... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PACUMBER] Source information In a message dated 4/16/2006 6:41:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Real genealogical research requires time, money, and patience. That > is what researchers find so offensive about nonresearchers who post > pedigrees. Barb and Peg, You bring forward two sides of the issue. But I suspect you are preaching to the choir. In my experience, many of the subscribers to lists like this are serious and long term researchers. People looking for an instant family tree don't spend much time on these lists except to make a posting or two hoping that someone has done the work for them. But this leads to why I am responding on-list rather than privately. Perhaps this can serve as a reminder that we can lead by example. When we respond to those inquiries we can give some sources or other background information so the other person can place it in context, perhaps even a word or two of explanation if the person is a "newbie." I recently saw on another list where a responder to an inquiry warned the first person not to include dates and places because someone might steal it. What good is the information without that? Better to not respond at all. Tony ==== PACUMBER Mailing List ==== A quick link to the complete list of PA USGenWeb County sites. http://www.pagenweb.org/ ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx