It's okay to "copy GEDCOMS" etc., as long as one uses it as clues and goes
to the trouble to double check the sources and look up the data given on the
Ged...

It still comes back to being responsible for the data you have, and the
sources you have; and especially what one passes on.

Sounds like you (Marie) have a good handle on the value of research.

Good Hunting!

Doris....A Texan in Georgia.....
still shaking the family tree
and dodging the nuts after 30+ years!!!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marie McKinney" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 10:56 AM
Subject: "Newbies"


I am new to this list but I can't help to see the words "newcomers" or
"newbies" mentioned in a context that they do not search
anywhere except from their computer. I have been interested in genealogy for
just 2 years and I do not rely on only the computer for answers. I spend
endless hours at the library, courthouse and have spent a fortune on records
from States that I can't go research for myself. In fact I have seen just
the oppisite which is people who claim to be doing genealogy for 30 years
and do nothing more than sit at their computer and copy GEDCOMS from other
incompetent "researchers".

Encouragement and constructive criticism will go much further in promoting
solid and factual genealogy than comments and attitudes which discourage
questions raised by "newbies".

Marie McKinney

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