In a message dated 3/26/01 7:58:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, jeanlee@harenet.net writes: > Please remember that all data you get off of the internet and from other > secondary sources should be documented by returning to those dusty rooms > :-) and obtaining the actual data. Then when well documented upload the > corrected and documented data. Use the data from the internet and CD's > as a tool to help you not as the end result. > -- Jean- Absolutely--I wasn't discounting the need for proof. However, most of us (using myself as an example) have made contacts through family trees and other secondary resources on the Internet that have led to the exchange of primary data that we or they already have in their possession. Just this last week I've copied and mailed photocopies of wills, birth, and death records for folks who found me or I found them through lists and boards, or WorldConnect files. That's certainly is a whole lot easier way to get the documentation than how we all used to have to do it. We also have much easier access to privately held family data such as family Bibles with so many folks transcribing that data and posting it to GenConnect boards or adding it to WorldConnect file documentation. Before Internet genealogy only the immediate family had access to this type of data in most cases. Joan