Thank you, Brent.

Shirley Cox Schroeder

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Tarter, Brent (LVA) <
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> I, too, have been following this discussion closely, and although it has
> now run its useful course, I thought I would try to wrap it up with two
> comments.
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> One is to thank Elizabeth Shown Mills for her wise and thoughtful
> commentary on sources and documentation.
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> The other is to point out that the Internet is not the villain here. Old
> books and genealogical articles as well as new Internet postings can all
> contain errors or omissions. The authors of some of the older
> publications (in whatever format) may not have had access to information
> that we can readily get today, so they committed unknowing errors. Which
> should remind us that none of us can ever have every fact that we need,
> and that from time to time we make well-educated but imperfect
> deductions from the evidence that we can find.
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> I treat Internet sources precisely as I treat printed sources, as
> starting places with leads to the original records, hoping that the
> original documents survive and do not contain inconsistencies or errors,
> themselves.
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> Now, back to work.
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> Brent Tarter
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