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From: "Hobbs" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: Just my thoughts on Ancestry.com


> I welcome the informative debate. I have been on this list long enough
> to remember when any discussion was curtailed immediately and much
> information that would have otherwise been offered was shut down.
>
> I have made it a policy to never send information in bulk to anyone, the
> LDS included, who will distribute that information at the drop of a hat.
> I have recently decided to refrain from sending my information to most
> of my "cousins" for reasons already stated by you folk.  I have offered
> documentation to cousins with bad information and have been ignored. It
> is as if these people want a long name count and do not care about the
> facts.
>
> I also need to tell you that we can engage in internet genealogy and
> still care about the facts.
>
> Occasionally, I will "seed" one piece of bad information in with some
> good. If what I have shared is misrepresented or misused, I then have
> the ability to list or website readers that the published information
> was erroneous and unauthorized and, at the very least, make clear the
> name of the offender for all to see.
>
> Bill Hobbs
>
>
> Clayton Gullatt wrote:
>
> >This rant has gone on long enough. Get back on topic genealogy and family
> >history.
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