Passing this onto several lists. I heartily support Ms Beck's position and the rootsweb site has good points on citations and establishing archival bases per surname. Bob G. >From: "Virginia Beck" <ginia2@san.rr.com> >To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Fw: Internet Genealogy- What's Good, What's not >Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 10:47:33 -0800 > >Hi all: This guide to research on the net was posted to the Bates County >MO >list. It has some excellent guidelines. I, for one, have been the >recipient of some "family history" that proved to be entirely without any >basis in fact. The least harm was the waste of time -- both mine and that >of others who tried to help me -- trying to prove a falsehood . The most >harm, that the false information is still out there, and being passed along >to others who may not try to check its accuracy. Regards, Virginia. > > > > Internet Genealogy < http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/cook.htm > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com