Which is exactly why genealogy is where it is today [Not that it is all
bad.].  Everyone wants credit for something they copied from someone or
somewhere else and there isn't a one of you who responded to this thread, or
didn't, that hasn't, myself included.

It is amazing how much gets done or discovered, when we don't care who gets
credit!  [Not original, I copied it from someone, somewhere!]

Regards,
Steve Stevens





-----Original Message-----
From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of J Armstrong
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:30 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Ditto on better days for genealogy



This perfectly illustrates why we need to pass along the importance  of
taking the trouble to look at as original a document as possible. In Eric's
case,
anyone who sees the original document with the correct spelling will
immediately be able to source that death certificate as part of the official
state
records.  It makes no difference who sees it first, posts it on the
internet or
copies it into a book.

There will always be a group of people who are perfectly content to
download
their family tree in one glop, and it really shouldn't bother the other
kind
of researcher who wants to be sure that everything's as correct as they can
ascertain.  You will not be taking their information as absolute, and most
likely neither will anyone you are familiar with.

The sad part is that unless the 'fast download' researcher starts to  dig
into their genealogy more deeply he/she will never know the thrill of
finding
"my son Edward" written on a deed after months or years of  looking.

I admit that I have plenty of stuff on my database that I didn't find all
by
myself.  I also don't pass it along to others and change it whenever I  find
data that proves something else.  But that "Aha!" moment is what I
remember.

Janice



[log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask])  wrote:

...  Sure, someone else retrieved the information for me but it was  my
digging
that located him so how do you source that?...

... eventually came across him.  His first name was  misspelled on the death
certificate index
transcriptions but not on the  certificate.  Once I found it I immediately
posted
my finds (and others  I ran across that day) in the area that I thought
researchers would pick it  up.  I wasn't looking for fame and fortune and
only
hoped people who  took the info would do the right thing and cite the source
but if not, at  least I can hope that this one find would lead to another as
people add to  it.

Eric....






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