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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > **************Stay up to date on the latest news - from sports scores to > > stocks and so much more. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000022<http://aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000022> > ) > > > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > > at > > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html > > > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html > -- Shirley Cox Schroeder To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html