From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Feb 6 19:05:04 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 k17253E0013554; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:05:04 -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 k17251ix027707 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:05:01 -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 k16NabFI015112 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:36:37 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k16NabHl015111 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:36:37 -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 k16NDKFI015018 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:13:20 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k171fWZ7017599 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:41:32 -0700 X-Envelope-From: botteron@alum.mit.edu Mon Feb 6 18:41:32 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 k171fWE0017590 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:41:32 -0700 Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k171fUmv015953 for ; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:41:31 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.47] ([70.22.168.179]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IUA00J7YND5RDT0@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:41:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 20:41:24 -0500 From: Carol Botteron Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Re: Why don't people include sources in databases? In-reply-to: <002001c62b80$f9b7fa30$6401a8c0@TOWER> To: "Kith-n-Kin" , "'Carol Botteron'" , Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed References: <002001c62b80$f9b7fa30$6401a8c0@TOWER> 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 At 5:53 PM -0700 2/6/06, Kith-n-Kin wrote: >|An expert (whose name, alas, I forget) said something like >|"Don't show me your data. Show me your list of sources." >| >|Carol Botteron > >LMSS -- that's the best I've heard in a long time! > >AND, make those original, handwritten, clear and easy to read. . . . >! NOT~ > >Pat (in Tucson) > >(oh, LMSS means "laughing my self silly" -- I'm not allowed to use >the usual phrase.) Glad you enjoyed it. I think it makes a lot of sense. Ever written to someone to say "I'm so happy that you found So-and-So's parents. Where did you find that information?" only to have them write back all offended that you don't trust them, and refuse to tell you anything? Grr. You could try ROFL (rolling on floor laughing) except that genealogists don't have time to clean floors, unless we suspect there's an ancestor buried under a heap of paper. :-) Best, Carol P.S. I suspect that the reason that my ancestors didn't leave me any money is that they spent it bribing clerks to remove their names from the records.