Well said Sharon!! I agree with you 100% To many mistakes out there!! To much online that is not correct data but some don't even bother to check for sources etc. they just accept it as being true. Quality, not quanity is the way to go. Jim > Data entry - Have you seen pedigrees where the owner has merged data - > incorporated whole gedcoms at once instead of entering each person > individually? Such people end up with a lot of names in their collections > and some monstrous mistakes as well as a great many duplications. There are > pedigrees at Ancestry.com with 200,000 names, at least one with 500,000 > names. Can you figure out why anyone would want that? > > I have a lot of people in my tree - 28,490 - but I entered every bit of data > by hand, so whatever mistakes are there are mine alone. LOL!! > > At first, all I wanted in my tree were the ancestors, but then I began to > add the aunts, uncles, and cousins, and that let me make a lot of > connections with some pretty wonderful people. To me, that's the best part > of genealogy finding kinfolks and sharing our "stuff" with each other. > > Sharon