I cannot comment at the /Tampa Bay/ website <http://www2.tbo.com/lifestyles/life/2012/nov/18/banewso8-drive-by-genealogists-should-learn-a-few-ar-567094/> because I do not do Facebook. Some bloggers have picked up the article and made it a "cause" in bloggers' world. <http://wetree.blogspot.com/2012/11/time-to-pop-cap-in-term-drive-by.html> <http://mmgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/11/grand-theft-genealogy.html> <http://sherifenley.blogspot.com/2012/11/ketchup-and-thanksgiving-this-is-not.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FrwzNy+%28THE++EDUCATED++GENEALOGIST%29> The slammed author attempts to point out and educate about problems with evidence evaluation. Hyperbole--exaggeration to create emphasis or effect--is employed by many authors and bloggers to make a point is not a bad thing. In this instance it is inflated on flogs (oops, blogs) as if it is a personal attack on "hobbiests" [/sic]/ and Ancestry.com--neither of which were mentioned in the author's article. And as if "license" was a serious proposition. There was no personal attack upon anyone in the author's article despite the prevailing crowd mentality of the commentators (a few of whom admit they have not even read the article). Not everything about is "you" (whoever you are). There is no common-sense reason to take every comment by an author or a blogger as a personal affront. Kathy Gunter Sullivan