From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 23 07:43:10 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6NDh7jb005021; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:43:07 -0600 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 k6NDh4ot032231 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:43:04 -0600 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 k6NB4lFI008729 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:04:47 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6NB4lq4008728 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:04:47 -0400 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 k6N7BrFI026019 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:11:53 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6N9nxR2022073 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:49:59 -0600 X-Envelope-From: almb@sw.rr.com Sun Jul 23 03:49:59 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6N9nxjb022064 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:49:59 -0600 Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.44]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6N9nsA7010204 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:49:56 -0600 Received: from sw.rr.com (cpe-68-206-189-204.sw.res.rr.com [68.206.189.204]) by ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6N9nrjQ000499 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:49:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44C34584.60604@sw.rr.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:46:44 -0500 From: Margaret Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine 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: AWT, OWT, Ancestry.com Thanks for the explanatio, Pat. This is a keeper. As for giving a smilie to a "good" tree might be a good idea; however, I haven't found a single one in any of my lineages that isn't full of errors. Too many have copied bad information and passed it on, failing to do their own research or, at least, to verify/attempt to verify what they see. The "bad" data is going to remain until people at least verify what's there. Verify and collect the documentation for the necessary corrections. At least what you have will be as nearly correct as is possible considering the lack of sufficient references, especially for the earlier ancestors. Not only Sherman but also time has done us no favor in this respect. mbm