From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 23 09:51:42 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 k6NFpgjb016075; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:51:42 -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 k6NFpdRh010089 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:51:39 -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 k6NDDMFI009034 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:13:22 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6NDDMTv009033 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:13:22 -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 k6NC3LFI008854 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:03:21 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6NEfR2k010221 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:41:27 -0600 X-Envelope-From: MaeMay510@aol.com Sun Jul 23 08:41:27 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 k6NEfRjb010210 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:41:27 -0600 Received: from imo-d23.mx.aol.com (imo-d23.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.137]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6NEfF2c003467 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:41:20 -0600 Received: from MaeMay510@aol.com by imo-d23.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.111.61dcb7cf (39331) for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:41:06 -0400 (EDT) From: MaeMay510@aol.com Message-ID: <111.61dcb7cf.31f4e482@aol.com> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:41:06 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5319 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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] Document, document, document In a message dated 7/23/2006 12:45:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: |Thanks for that excellent explanation but, my goodness!, |aren't many of the gedcoms online scrambled enough already |without Ancestry.com devoting a computer to mix them together |even more?? (Rhetorical question.) Unfortunately, genealogy has to be started with assumptions or we'd flounder with blank spaces and no where to go. I do use the information in both of Ancestry's trees, but I use them as a starting point, an assumption, (learned when AF in the LDS files proved to be so spurious) and then prove them or disprove them. I've found errors but I've also found good information. So I'm grateful for both the good and the bad. Shirley Maynard Hampton, VA