Barb, I am glad I am not the only one who thinks that there is a quality problem. I think it is a major concern that should be highlighted as you did. I would expect such documents supported by a major genelogical business to be much better. I don't expect it to be perfect, but there are major omissions (as I had previously stated due to my having just reviewed the 1910 VA census at the local LDS history center.) If you include the many easily identified typo's that have numbers imbeded in words, then what other mistakes are in the file? This attitude of accepting such poor quality is one of the reason that there is so much bad data out there on the internet. It certainly supports the notion that everything should be checked against original documents. What arrogance to think we will pay for such poor quality. Another example is that recently I obtained several original documents about some local community histories written in the early 1900's. I discovered the same documents posted (by an unnamed prestigious organization) on the internet. I was shocked at the number of mistakes made in translating the text in the documents to the internet. To the organization's favor they readily accepted my corrections. I am sure most researchers are aware of this problem, but it really bugs me. Thanks for the sanity check, George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Norvell" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 8:21 PM Subject: Re: SW_VA-D Digest V00 #287 > I to looked at the Census offered. On one surname, I did great, but try > and look for a very common name or a name that can be a given name or a > surname. I tried looking for the Surname Warren. I got Warren county > and the given name Warren, but nowhere did I find the Warren surname. > Of course there were over 4,000 hits, but who has time for that. I wrote > to them and complained, but you know how much good that will do. How > can they charge for this site. > > Barb > > Main lines COLE, WARREN & ROBERTS > Other names Carrico, Stoneman, Haga, Parks and more > > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=barbnor > http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/n/o/r/Barbara-E-Norvell/index.html >

Hi, I agree, there is a lot to be desired in the offering on this site, maybe that is why it is free for 10 days. While on the subject of "quality" in what is offered, I wonder if everyone is satisfied with what is offered on the Internet at the Library of Virginia site, am I the only one who finally, just gets disgusted and gives up? Paul