Genealogy without documentation is nothing. Paul Drake JD Genealogist & Author <www.DrakesBooks.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Drake Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Errors on pay sites I apologize; I was being called to dinner and did not adequately proof the last note I sent. Allow me to try again: My comments were intended to bring those who are relatively new to research to realize that there are inaccuracies, and sometimes there are inaccuracies compounding inaccuracies. Such are unavoidable, pay or not pay sites, just as errors were being made two centuries ago when the original entries were posted or transcribed. That said, I still have a measure of resentment that most of the pay sites have yet to reveal to the same newbies that, in fact, VERY few of the available records are as of yet available on any website. The search methods we must employ as researchers have not changed one iota; the approaches to sources remain the same. Dead ends are still solved, if at all, through good old fashioned thorough research with the records that have been found WHERE your ancestors were born, lived, worked, went to church, died and were buried. To the extremely limited extent that such records as of yet appear on the pay-for-info sites, I say "fine." To the much larger extent that those are not yet available with this new tool, I say, use the methods upon which we have relied and have used for scores, if not hundreds, of years. Genealogy without documentation is nothing. Paul Drake JD Genealogist & Author <www.DrakesBooks.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1027 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1027 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try SPAMfighter for free now! ---------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1027 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try www.SPAMfighter.com for free now!