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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