You might want to take this one step further. What about original
documents with marginal notations made after the filming? To make
matters worse, often the digital image is made from the film---not the
original. Thus even though created at a later date the, digital image
contains no updated information. And then there are always those
corrected copies filed later with no notation made on the original.
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On 3/19/2012 2:34 PM, Alexander Colvin wrote:
> Greetings:
> If I may, I would caution against a too-heavy reliance upon digitized
> sources found on the Internet. They are ubiquitous, true, but IMHO, best
> used as a reference to find the originals. I have found this particularly
> true when working with older documents such as some types of 19th century
> mortgages and leases; for example, clerks often indicated a satisfaction of
> mortgage on the reverse side of the document, a leaf which is sometimes
> missed by digitizers and even sometimes by microfilmers. Also, much was
> expressed in marginalia, which is sometimes omitted in digitized
> renditions. I can think of half a dozen "professional" genealogy databases
> who routinely cut off document margins where relevant data is sometimes
> found.
> Kindly,
> A. Colvin
> The Colvin Study,
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> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Rondina Muncy<[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Eric,
>>
>> My point was that you do not need a database if you can look at digital or
>> microfilmed images of the original documents. Derivative sources are
>> helpful, but reliance on them often leads researchers to overlook documents
>> that will answer their questions.
>>
>> While everyone's tree being online is an ideal, it is only so if the
>> information includes the sources it is based on. Looking at online trees is
>> a low priority for myself and the use of information posted should be
>> followed with research to document the discoveries. The opportunity is
>> there to achieve what you want, but with millions of hobbyists re-posting
>> someone else's inaccurate and undocumented conclusions with no analysis,
>> I will not see this in my lifetime.
>>
>> I do not post to the Muncy tree. My husband was a descendant of Francis
>> Muncy of Virginia.
>>
>> Rondina
>> _______________________
>> Rondina P. Muncy
>> Ancestral Analysis
>> 4008 Linden Avenue
>> Fort Worth, Texas 76107
>> 682.224.6584
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>> www.ancestralanalysis.com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Huffstutler, Eric S.<
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> True to a certain point because not all databases are available for
>>> Internet use. Not everyone's tree is online. To that we still need
>>> volunteers for lookups and people to post lineage someplace where others
>>> can share and connect to or someone like me, who figure by now certain
>>> branches would have been filled via scan documents, have no way of
>>> knowing if people don't post their finds somewhere. By not sharing
>>> only creates new brick walls for others.
>>>
>>> Now, I see you are a Muncy. Have we corresponded before on a Muncy tree
>>> here in Virginia?
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rondina Muncy
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 11:26 PM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Genealgy Future
>>>
>>> Eric,
>>>
>>> I believe you are correct in your observation that some genealogical
>>> websites that five to ten years ago were very active don't seem to be
>>> updated. From this we cannot tell whether it is from lack of interest in
>>> the sites by visitors or from lack of interest by persons or groups in
>>> keeping up the sites.
>>>
>>> My theory is that the abstracts and databases that used to be uploaded
>>> and added to on a regular basis have been replaced by digital images of
>>> the original records by repositories of all sorts. It used to be written
>>> in stone that a trip to the library for derivative sources was the first
>>> item in a genealogical research plan. My first step is to now search the
>>> Internet for both derivative and original sources.
>>>
>>> Rondina
>>> _______________________
>>> Rondina P. Muncy
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