Yes, and beware of certain"authority databases". These people are quick to fulfill your queries, but are not related to you or care that you may launch into the wrong direction. Other WELL KNOWN databases now include a disclaimer with their info, as they too, have mislead the masses by accepting others work without researching it. New researchers now accept their material as gospel. Take others' info(including mine) as clues, then prove it yourself with at least 3 different documented sources. >From: "Diane Casey" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected], [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [TNLINCOL] TNLINCOL Digest, Vol 1, Issue 59 >Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 08:54:54 -0700 > >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 _________________________________________________________________ Try the next generation of search with Windows Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline