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Subject: [ROOTS-L] List of sources

In a message dated 2/7/2006 10:56:58 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes:


|An  expert (whose name, alas, I forget) said something like 
|"Don't show me  your data.  Show me your list of sources."
 
I was discussing this very thing this morning and realized that I have as  
many pages of sources and documentation as I have data in my Johannes Conrad  
Mohr manuscript..
It seems the sources online are multiplying more rapidly than I can keep  up.
When I find the sources are more than twice the data, I'm done!   Who would 
want to read a family history book that has a person and 30  footnotes?  
Another person and 20 footnotes.
I am, after all, writing for family enjoyment, not for professional  
genealogists.
Document, yes, but don't be boring with it.
 
Shirley Maynard
Hampton, VA