----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda Mason Campos" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [TNLINCOL] TNLINCOL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 59 > Hello All, > As I read this ..it reminded me of what was done to me by a cousin. > She took my info , posted it on the web and never even said one word about > who she got the info from, which was me. > Brenda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Betty McCollum" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 4:32 AM > Subject: Re: [TNLINCOL] TNLINCOL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 59 > > >> D>> One other little rule that might be followed: Do not post someone's >> elses years of research to World Connect, or pass it on to someone else, >> without giving credit to that researcher. I shared a few years ago with >> someone on my Caruthers research (probably 30+ years), only to see it on >> world connect with no mention[ of my name, but his, as though he had done >> all the research. I don't mind sharing with anyone but give me a >> "little" >> credit:) >> Betty McCollum >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Diane Casey" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 7:54 AM >> Subject: Re: [TNLINCOL] TNLINCOL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 59 >> >> >>> Please read the attached post ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE NEW TO GENEALOGY. >>> >>> Please pardon my soapbox and please Do NOT respond to me via this list >>> but to my email directly. I am so strongly in agreement with this >>> gentleman that I almost did not post the Annotated 1850 Census online. >>> I have nightmares that, in the future, the web page will be cited as the >>> ones that scrambled LCT genealogy! (somewhat tongue in cheek but not >>> totally). >>> >>> Source: >>> RootsWeb Review, 27 September 2006, Vol. 9, No. 39 (An interesting >>> general genealogy list). >>> >>> >>> "Accepting Undocumented Information By Dan Craycraft in Cleveland, >>> Ohio, USA >>> >>> A word of caution to new genealogists. When I began using the Internet, >>> some five to eight years ago, I accepted everything that was given to >>> me. I was like a magpie, saving everything. Unfortunately, I began to >>> post this undocumented information on the RootsWeb's WorldConnect. >>> >>> Then the problems began. I received dozens of queries over the years as >>> to where I got my information. Of course, I could only explain that it >>> came from John or Jane Doe. >>> >>> After several years of receiving this type of query, I came to the >>> conclusion that if it was not my research, I would delete it from my >>> database and from WorldConnect. >>> >>> My advice to new genealogists -- don't incorporate someone else's work >>> into your database. Use their work as a launching pad, but do not accept >>> their work as fact without doing the research yourself. This process >>> will save you many agonizing hours of answering inquiries as to the >>> source of your information. >>> >>> Be very careful about what you post online and what access you allow >>> others to have to your data. I have several examples where I freely gave >>> my family tree (GEDCOM) to others. They in turn incorporated it into >>> their databases and now, I cannot retract what I gave them. >>> Unfortunately, during those early years of my investigation into my >>> family line, incorrect information was included. Yet, those errors >>> continue today to be posted on their websites!" >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>> Version: 7.0.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.28/518 - Release Date: 11/4/06 >>> >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >