I can understand fully your position. The copy, copy, paste, publish and
share can become a problem when it is not substantiated. I guess in a lot
of ways I am considered a "newbie" since I just started in 2004 with my
family in Buckingham, Virginia and now so engrossed in Virginia history and
1700 and 1800 history in general - never to return. Fortunately, in my
family tree I have a distant cousin who is a genealogist who has mentored
me. Also, there are a number of you (you know who you are and my
appreciation is overflowing..) that have helped me and gently guided me off
list when seeing that I was definitely headed down a huge primrose path!!
As an accolade to this list, I have started a notebook where I am printing
off emails to refer back to as when the discussions were of the Colonial
Calendar, etc. We all have a common passion and it comes together here.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Tom Gilmore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> As exciting as it is to have the wonderful tools available on the internet,
> I often wonder if
> the many untrained wannabe genealogists playing
> copy-copy-paste-publish-and-share
> haven't taken more from our passion for genealogy than has been gained.
> Seems fewer new
> researchers are even aware of the simplest standards of research, not
> knowing that
> be it genealogy, history or biology, there are some common "rules." I'd
> almost --well, almost--
> be willing to give up my online connection for good, old snail-mail.
> Actually, many of us had
> a
> well developed circle of researchers who worked together. It just took
> longer.
>
> This is in no way a complaint about the newcomer who is interested in
> researching family
> ancestors and is willing, even eager, to learn how to go about it. I was
> there once.
>
> --Tom
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:24 PM, J Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > The days when a person was on their own digging records out of the
> > courthouse probably produced most of those mistakes you're talking
> about.
> > No internet
> > to learn from - you would have had to work at finding out if what you
> were
> > doing was correct. And as soon as most people found that the f was an
> > old-style
> > s, they would have changed their ways.
> >
> > But there are a few people out there whose minds are unable to transform
> > from one identification set to another. A square doesn't always pop out
> > into a
> > cube for them, unfortunately. They must have very frustrating lives.
> >
> >
> >
> > Janice
> >
> >
> >
> > And if any transcriber was caught transcribing Mississippi as
> "Mipipippi",
> > they should be immediately terminated for being afflicted with an acute
> > lack
> > of common sense :-)
> >
> > Nel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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