> 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