a search is a search is a search. It's the dedication and love for the past and the finding of just one name that gives us the fever. My family has come alive to me over the past 3 years that I have been trying to locate them. I searched for 2 years just to find one surname, and it was by talking to a relative I have only seen once in my 51 years that a name slipped out of her mouth that opened the door to finding my g-g-g- grandparents and their families in France. Thank heavens for equipment, savers and genealogists like us!!! Pamela Hagins Tassey [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Wayne L II <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, April 11, 1998 7:40 AM Subject: [PAALLEGH-L] Re: GENEALOGICAL SUICIDE >David, I agree about most of what you say and I am guilty as charge, but I >have not sent in any information as of yet. I like your idea about sending in >only your own work and keeping a separate file for yourself with the who >family. > I have written two books prior to the internet and was the work of myself >and the people who I had contacted by mail or phone. And at the time of each >book I thought they contained a large amount of names, but after the internet >they are not so large. > I am using the internet to cut and past, but after I get the new >information I attempt to go back and check out the material. I have always >done this. I suppose that it is not much different as when we use to order >film from the LDS or go to the large libraries to gather information. I know I >have order over 1500 films from Salt Lake City and I have been there and >gathered the info. So in one way what makes this any different than going >through files on the internet. The same goes to the fact that I used to write >to family members and get their information. Is not that the same as getting >it over the internet? > I think the biggest mistake most of us are making is that we do not check >and recheck the information we are getting off of the internet. > I know I have typed up about 1000 obits and placed in my books and it >takes time to do this. It is easy to cut and paste, but is it right. Well now, >are we not doing the same thing with our newspaper obits from the past, I mean >cutting and pasting. The only thing that is different is that we are not >sending away for the material, but getting it right off the computer. > So let us keep on digging for those roots and let us check out the material >to see if it is correct and you might be able to add to the whole story by >finding out something new when you check the information. > No David I think we are very lucky to beable to have access to such a large >data base. Before the computer it was the people who lived in large cities >that had access to the data that is on the computer. But now every one has a >chance to research his tree. >Thank You Wayne L McKean, Seattle, WA > >