From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Feb 5 10:51:53 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k15HprE0001712; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:51:53 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k15HpQBL012589 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:51:26 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k15FN7FI007628 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:23:07 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k15FN7iI007627 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:23:07 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k15EZ6FI007500 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:35:06 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k15H3EqM007485 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:03:14 -0700 X-Envelope-From: karen@bw-10.mtpinos.com Sun Feb 5 10:03:14 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k15H3EE0007476 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:03:14 -0700 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [63.173.235.138]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k15H3AiH014187 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:03:11 -0700 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [127.0.0.1]) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k15H37W7011167 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:03:07 -0800 Received: (from karen@localhost) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id k15H37Up011165 for roots-l@rootsweb.com; Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:03:07 -0800 Message-Id: <200602051703.k15H37Up011165@bw-10.mtpinos.com> To: roots-l@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:03:07 -0800 (PST) Organization: Not very From: Karen Isaacson Leverich X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Why should people help you? > I will try to be polite when I say this Seldom a bad notion. ;-) > but if a > person's knowledge of world geography is in such a > shoddy state, then just imagine what their family tree > research must be like. On the other hand, if that person happens to be the one who ended up with great-great-grandpa's Bible, hey, I don't care if they know geography or can tell a first cousin once removed from an aunt, I just want them to know a safe way to copy the pages and get me that all important clue to get through my brick wall. Seriously, we are all kinds of researchers here, from some well-known academic sorts (whom I won't "out") to school kids working on a paper to beginners who don't own atlases to obsessives (hi!) who've been pottering at this for decades. If someone is new and doing sloppy research, it's pretty easy to tell. Give them a hand but ... don't put too much weight on their conclusions. We all double-check the sources, anyhow, right? Or at least ... we intend to! Karen karen@mtpinos.com