From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Jul 23 21:42:01 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 k6O3g1jb002733; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:42:01 -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 k6O3fwGa027511 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:41:58 -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 k6O13eFI012536 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:03:40 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6O13epT012535 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:03:40 -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 k6NNmLFI012241 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:48:21 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6O2QTiF000799 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:26:29 -0600 X-Envelope-From: sdm.prowett@gmail.com Sun Jul 23 20:26:29 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 k6O2QTjb000790 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:26:29 -0600 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.182]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6O2QNN1019894 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:26:23 -0600 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x66so2035185pye for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:25:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:from:to:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=jD+KiPoXFQ+omZupXWVS/DL613QsojcWkldNL9T6PF/0bXSBTRIkLc7gVLLksAHr9wakYishx0QMheiAUD+hi0x/sw94L+Usd8W5fF6fioIpWqs+3oCSw/7390hrJRrrz6UNDbONcW3B8iSrmB/fXklaPnkjK6p4ECtSYnh6fME= Received: by 10.35.41.14 with SMTP id t14mr6623643pyj; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:25:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Yoda ( [64.146.135.196]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id k53sm130194pyd.2006.07.23.19.25.50; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:25:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <012001c6aec8$7b34d4f0$6601a8c0@Yoda> From: "Sondra Prowett" To: References: <569.58a47e80.31f4e8f9@aol.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Accessing Ancestry World Tree & WorldConnect database Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:25:46 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2905 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 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 I'm fairly new to this list...maybe I shouldn't post, but I feel pretty strongly about the issue of sharing... Maybe I'm naive, but I think that having some idea of who is working on your lines and what they 'might' have found is better than no information at all. I consider submitting an important aspect in using the internet to 'share' information. Not all of it is correct, but then, even not all of original records are always 'correct'. Our information can only be as good as what we know 'at the time'. I wish more people who submitted would submit their sources as well so that you have some idea of what made them think the way they do...family lists without sources are okay for maybe getting a clue as to where to look, but sure don't tell you much about how seriously to take someone's data. My main lines are being sourced with many references to original records of all kinds. But, being a relative Newbie at all of this genealogy stuff, I haven't had time to do the same on "allied families" but I do have the information in my file with a source notation of whos gedcom, or rootweb database, or AFN on familysearch that I got the information from. Those who know of corrections to these lines, tell me and I post their corrections and their contact information so that others can share their information and get into contact with them as well. Maybe I don't understand the genealogy community too well, but if all of us waited until we had the time to search for every source in every allied family in order to post information wouldn't that make us just takers instead of givers who are trying to share what we 'conclude or hope to be true' with others working on the same problems? Just my thoughts :) S o n d r a ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:00 AM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Accessing Ancestry World Tree & WorldConnect database > In a message dated 7/22/2006 9:54:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, > ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > Too many > people merely download the gedcoms of others, merge the information with > their own and resubmit. Thus the same errors can be perpetuated over and > over. > > I used to do this as a newbie, but I've learned the error of my ways. > Now I > no longer submit until I check out sources. Because I haven't had a lot > of > time for that, I don't submit anymore, which in light of this > conversation is > probably for the best. > > I guess a lot of us do things out of ignorance, which is why these forums > are so important. > > Don > > >