David, You said: "When one piece of erroneous information becomes 1000 pieces of the same erroneous information, it takes on a life of it's own and an enearned "truth". I don't think this is a problem only on the internet. I have seen genealogies done 100 years ago with oodles of errors. I correspond with several OTT families [of different origins] and some of them have their histories so mixed up, I wonder if the will ever straighten them out! Primary sources, primary sources and then that combined with a big handful of caution and good sense and your genealogy might not present a barrier to your descendants. Unfortunately genealogies are not like dissertations with a review committee, etc. They probably should be, but practically never will be. Cora