Just how long is this discussion going to go on?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Stevens" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Ditto on better days for genealogy
> 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
>
>
>
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>
> -----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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