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
 
 
 
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...  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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