From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Feb 6 16:52:26 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 k16NqQE0030742; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:52:26 -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 k16NqQhk027434 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:52:26 -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 k16LO3FI014726 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:24:03 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k16LO3x0014725 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:24:03 -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 k16KtYFI014617 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 15:55:34 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k16NNkDc010442 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:23:46 -0700 X-Envelope-From: botteron@alum.mit.edu Mon Feb 6 16:23:46 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 k16NNkE0010433 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:23:46 -0700 Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k16NNjR8012273 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:23:45 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.47] ([70.22.168.179]) by vms044.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IUA00DSUGZLNC94@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:23:46 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:23:41 -0500 From: Carol Botteron In-reply-to: <200602061551.k16FpKYj029188@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed References: <200602061551.k16FpKYj029188@lists5.rootsweb.com> 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 don't people include sources in databases? From: "MScheffler" > Phil asked earlier why we many of us repeatedly remind people to > verify sources before accepting information one finds on line when > many people don't post them. > My "guess" is that the primary reasons for lack of sources is 1) some > people hold the opinion that if you provide no sources, someone will > contact you to ask about them or 2) most everything in some people's > files is from gedcom files they downloaded from all over the net, and > they have not the slightest idea where a good portion of their > information came from. > Then there is always the possibility, that many people, like me in the > beginning didn't enter sources because they did not realize how necessary > this is for good research. What Margaret said. It's a tough thing to learn the hard way! Let's hope some of the beginning genealogists will learn from our mistakes. An expert (whose name, alas, I forget) said something like "Don't show me your data. Show me your list of sources." Carol Botteron