Peggy,
Thank you for an insightful contribution to this thread.
Alice Cox Phillips, CG
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From: "Peggy Lauritzen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Virginia Citations
>I have appreciated all of the comments in this thread about the correctness
> and incorrectness of the LDS sites. However, I feel I must respond.
>
> There is a lot of sloppy genealogy all over the internet - and on people's
> home computers, in lineage societies, etc. I know it, and you know it -
> for we've all seen it. Therefore, as genealogists and family historians
> who
> care about how our records will go on, we must educate those around us.
>
> I speak to groups a lot and am frequently a speaker at seminars. One of
> the things I am most diligent about is documentation of our own works.
> And
> - even it can be wrong. Let me give you an example...
>
> My sister was married 25 JUNE 1960. Just a few years ago, we were going
> through her belongings and ran across her marriage certificate. It was
> clearly dated 25 JULY 1960!
>
> What to do?
>
> I was at the wedding. My other sisters were. We all knew it was in
> June.
>
> But, if someone else were to run across the certificate years from now,
> they would enter JULY. It would look like we were wrong and they were
> right.
>
> The same thing can happen in the databases - someone may record one date
> and you have a family bible that states another.
>
> The bottom line is that other people can certainly have it all messed up -
> and so can I and so can you.
>
> In my classes, I tell the students that family histories, legends, oral
> interviews, internet sites, etc. are all very important to use as a
> springboard to take you back to the original sources.
>
> The only thing I strongly discourage about the above sources is having
> people use them as the absolute truth and adding everything they read
> right on
> into their database. If they do this, then it continues a long line of
> sloppy genealogies.
>
> And I do mean sloppy!
>
>
> Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG
>
> In this life we cannot always do great things...but we can do small
> things
> with great love.
> Mother Teresa
>
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