I too wish that people would "give credit where credit is due,"  but the 
occasional lack of that courtesy does not stop me from posting what I learn. 
I only want "the truth and nothing but the truth," and when I find it, I 
believe that I really should share it with others.....no matter what some of 
them might do with it.

I think that the high rate at which genealogy-related information was being 
added to the internet in the late-1990s and early/mid-2000s was bound to 
taper-off to some degree.  There are only so many documents out there to be 
found, interpreted and discussed.  In addition, many folks have discovered 
just how hard (and frustrating) this "hobby" can be, and their initial 
enthusiasm has waned (too many "brick walls").  It is also hard, no doubt, 
for people to concentrate on genealogy when their IRAs are "tanking," their 
homes are being foreclosed, they cannot afford gasoline to get to work, etc.

DNA testing has helped to renew the discussions to some degree, and many 
"revelations" have come from that science.  I look at this testing as just 
another very valuable tool to use (there is nothing "magical" nor "mystical" 
about it), and I wonder if some of those who take no stock in it are just 
afraid that their 20+ years of research might be proven wrong.  I love dusty 
old libraries and courthouses as much as the next person, but I cannot turn 
my back on scientific proof, when/if it is made available.  I would 
literally not take a million dollars for my own DNA test results, nor for 
the DNA test results of my male maternal cousin (though his surname is 
"Brown," he turned-out to be a "blood Smith".....this is why, it seems, that 
our gg-grandfather was named Smith W. Brown).  Each of these DNA tests 
proved "connections" that documentation alone simply NEVER 
could......period. 

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