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    1. Re: Let's be grateful
    2. Beverly
    3. Regarding the lack of documentation, sources, notes, etc., in the various files you find at familysearch.org., I would like to weigh in with my personal experience. About ten years back when I first started going after information on my family, I was grateful to find some of their names listed in the old Ancestral File database. And I did not understand and recognize the importance of documentation. Ignorant as I was, I submitted my mother's line and my father's line to the AF, after getting permission from those who were living and who would be included in any degree. This submission is full of errors. And, if you recall, notes and sources could not be included in these submissions, even if I'd been smart enough to have them! (Several years later and much more aware of documentation, I made submissions to the PRF which included my notes and sources. Is it all proven? Of course not but I continue to work on it and will make additional submissions as I uncover errors.) My point in all this is that had I not made my initial submission with all its errors to the AF, I would have missed making contact with other researchers who found my name there and contacted me. So let's be grateful for what we find, be kind to those of us who aren't yet perfect and continue to learn from, and share with, each other. Isn't that what PAF was created for? Beverly - Mailto:kngsldy@cableone.net Families are Forever!

    05/26/2005 11:17:58