There are two genealogy software programs which allows you to identify each bit of information that you have and where it came from - Ultimate Family Tree and Master Genealogist. Carren Bragg Julia Christianson wrote: > > Please, PLEASE, include the source of your information when you post data > > and questions to the list. The Internet has become an explosion of > > mis-information and let's all hope that OUR list does not contribute to > > this further. > > Dear Nedra, > > Thank you for this post. I'm always disappointed when people don't > specify their sources -- but I had wondered if that behavior might be an > unspoken rule of genealogical etiquette on the order of "I'll tell you > the facts I know but if you want the sources you can find them yourself, > like I did" -- it's good to know that that's not so. > > Your post raises a another issue that's been nagging me ... back in the > days before computers, it was fairly easy to distinguish in one's > working papers between well-documented facts and undocumented > leads/speculation by using pencil, inserting a question mark (or 3) etc. > -- with computers this isn't so easy, and I think this is part of the > reason errors are rife on the internet. But I do want to enter these > undocumented people/events in my database to suggest future avenues for > research, and so forth. However, once they get in there it's hard to > tell from the overview level which ones are solidly researched and which > ones aren't. So the question: how does a professional deal with this > issue? (As a programmer, I'd use a color-coding scheme, but to my > knowledge none of the real programmers have thought of that). > > -- Julia