You are very generous to share your history.  Bless you!  I used to, then
there was an occasion when someone took my info and really made a mess of
it.
I had posted on the Harper List at Rootsweb that Benj. Harper died so much
early than his wife Charlotte that you can't help but *wonder* if she was
his second wife.  Also in this posting was : Charlotte is *perhaps *the
daughter of George Hiett...we are following this possibility.
Someone took these thoughts and posted, under their name, that Charlotte,
dau. of George Hiett, was Benj.'s 2nd wife.
That was the end of my sharing leads, thoughts and hard facts.
Mitzie

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:17 AM, William <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I also found instances of undocumented, wishful thinking for my family's
> genealogy online.
> Often I wonder who came up with ideas like this one: "Mary Rush Adams
> thought to be related to the John Adams family of Boston."
> The woman who married my oldest know ancestor was actually "Mary Rush",
> daughter of William Rush IV formerly of Westmoreland County. The Rush
> family
> has a long and well documented history back to 1654.
>
> The best way to combat misinformation, I thought,  was to develop and write
> one's own family history website.
> Even if it is only a page or two about the research which you have
> discovered so far, it will be found on the internet. Over time, you will
> add
> more pages as your original research progresses. Soon it will be many
> pages.
> If you are already engaged in the hard work of finding primary documents,
> you might as well share it.
>
> You can take a course in website design at most community colleges.  Web
> Hosting sites like GoDaddy have easy to use formats which will surfice for
> typing a few pages. You can purchase a domain name for as little as a
> couple
> buck per years and the hosting fee is inexpensive.  Check it out:
> www.godaddy.com
>
> William Milam
> www.milaminvirginia.com
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