That's a good one Jack. Brought tears to my eyes.... L -----Original Message----- From: pawestmo-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pawestmo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jack O'Connor Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 10:12 AM To: pawestmo@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Fuller family (Michael Wayne) I once saw a picture in one of the trees that was captioned, "McGuire Settlement 1790". 1790!, who had cameras in 1790. Clues, leads or ideas. That's all they're good for. Jack > To: pawestmo@rootsweb.com > From: MPWAYNE@comcast.net > Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:24:02 -0400 > Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Fuller family (Michael Wayne) > > I agree. Be very wary of ancestry trees. I shared my data directly with a distant cousin a few years back and, somehow, when she entered it at ancestry, she managed to have one ancestor married to her own son and her husband. It's a mess. Forewarned... > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "soulmate" <soulmate@embarqmail.com> > To: <pawestmo@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [PAWESTMO] Fuller family (Michael Wayne) > Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 08:36 > > > AMEN, I'd not copy one thing on ancestry without follow-up documentation. > The site is a mess for documented research. Thank you I will keep my > stuff in hard copies in binders... USE ancestry only for a clue, do > your own research!!! > > I had one person who told me he counts all the entries and if 25 or 30 > people have copied it to their trees then it has to be true... So that is > how this stuff gets perpetuated. Even when it says unsourced...... > > Linda > > -----Original Message----- > From: pawestmo-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:pawestmo-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of MaeMay510@aol.com > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:02 AM > To: pawestmo@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAWESTMO] Fuller family (Michael Wayne) > > > In a message dated 4/23/2012 21:45:39 Eastern Standard Time, > diamonddi57@optusnet.com.au writes: > > Thanks but everyone refers me to the ancestry entry there is no proof > of Henry being this Rebecca and Johns son, that's what I need to > find. I did contact the person that put that tree there, no one has proof of anything. > > > > > You are very smart. A family has put the wrong wife for my immigrant > Johannes Conrad Mohr and it just kills me how many think it is right. > To make it worse, they have a woman married to her own son. > Be wary of posted material. They are more interested in getting it > online than in documentation. > And, as we learned in records at the LDS, once entered, it will never > be deleted. Others may add or correct, but the original remains. > The power of the internet perpetuates errors. > Sift the coal and find the diamond. > Shirley Maynard > Hampton, VA > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAWESTMO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAWESTMO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAWESTMO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAWESTMO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message