[or-roots] You are right of course Gary

[Leslie Chapman]

Gary;

You are of course correct, to truly call it genealogy requires it to be
accurate; specifically the standard is two original sources for each fact
that goes into your family line.

BUT as I pointed out, not all of us have the resources to do that, my
maternal great great grandfather is one of our weakest links, our primary
evidence is his son's family bible which lists his parentage and places and
times of birth and some other details. But  we do not know where he died and
not even absolutely when he died.

Then we come to my database; I have nine Jonathan Melvins from 1688 to 1851
and thanks to merging the work of the "copiests" I have the facts for all
nine of them intermingled almost to the point of lunacy because some folks
didn't consider the possibility that the Jonathan they had info in front of
them for was the one they wanted at that point. So yes I am much more in
sympathy with what Gary is saying than I may have sounded last night, and I
always make a point of letting people know how ?reliable any information I
give them is or isn't.

Les C

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his material off the net with no sources.  he won't give any.  the ones who
take his data off the net are continuing to pass it on to "the copiers" as
gospel.  people that have families or are short on funds should go to the
lds family history library and do what they can afford to do, but do it
accurately.  i often wonder why it is so important to have a certain number
of names in your database.  remember, there were what i call "tent creepers'
WAY back when.  good luck to all that do this "hobby??"
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