> > From: [email protected] > Date: 2005/03/08 Tue PM 05:09:25 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TURNER] Roll Call > > In a message dated 3/8/2005 4:08:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > From one "amatuer" to another, keep on truckin' and ignore those who are > purist know-it-alls. I sometimes have to bite my email's tongue to keep it from > sounding off to these "people". > Jimmy > What started out as a simple request that undocumented or questionable data > be labeled as such when sharing it has now turned into name calling. Yes, you > can label me a "purist" but I have never claimed to "know it all". Since you > don't know me that puts your comment into the speculation category <g> I am > paid to teach what I know to those who want to learn how to become serious > researchers. All I wanted to do was share the theory of citation and > documentation. > > Those who wish to collect ancestors for fun and recreation only are more than > welcome to do so. If it makes them happy then I would never try to stop them > or look down upon them. > > There are those of us who fall into the serious researching genealogist > category and we do hold a certain standard for data. It can be an expensive and > time consuming adventure and we find as much satisfaction from it as you do. > > Now lets end what I now regret having started and get on with the roll call. > > Audrae Turner Mathis > > > ==== TURNER Mailing List ==== > Turner list website - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/t/turner.html > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > You are right - I don't know you and I apologize to one and all for my off the wall, spur of the moment, and uncalled for comment. It was definently inappropriate and only added fuel to this mess which should rightly have been put to rest long ago - permanently. Jimmy