[or-roots] othere inappropriate genealogy

[Leslie Chapman]

As long as I have already I have already confessed to being a dirty old man
on here I think I should mention another thing that folks doing genealogy on
the internet might encounter that perhaps they would rather not;

If you are searching for someone by name and a hit comes up that appears to
have a lot of unrelated words, particularly not genealogy related words
along with the name you are after, I would suggest you not follow that link,
most likely it is for one of those wonderful drugs that have come out for
older men. Our drug companies can't afford to produce pills that provide
releif to whole ranges of "orphan" medical conditions, but we can afford
millions to develop a pill so we old guys can be more obnoxious to our poor
spouses.

Now I realize that is not too bad a thing, but unfortunately the mentality
that uses the verbiage in those pages to overcome spam filters also uses the
same mentality for other web links that are of the same nature as the one I
ran across earlier. Now admittedly all that nice young girl was offering me
was to talk, but for $9 a minute or whatever she wasn't expecing to talk
about genealogy. And I have clicked on search links that came up with the
verbiage and gotten a lot worse offers than that. Ironically the first time
that happened to me, my wife happened to be looking over my shoulder. OUCH.

Fortunately I still had the link up that I had followed and so could prove
it wasn't my fault.

Here is a not too apt example of the kind of thing I am talking about;

flauberth,baudelaire,samuel beckett,novalis,colette,
carrol,tolstoj,ammaniti, baricco,burroughs,
ami anne sexton,angela carter, anna rice,woolrich,banana ...

this is the actual text of a google hit of a search for Anna Rice, this
particular hit was just to a Blog page for some French Goth type or some
such, since it was written in French [I think] i can't say what it was
really about. Considering I recognize some famous people in the verbiage it
may be a legitiamte discussion of some form of literature for all I know,
all I know is it won't help me with first cousin-in-law [eight times
removed] Anna Rice's genealogy.

But I have seen simlar lists of words that included all the terms I was
searching for, once I got a link that included the person I wanted, his or
her father and the relevant city and state, I was sure I had a hit, and boy
did I.

So if you get a hit on google or another search engine, even if it has
several words that are relevant, if it has a lot of words that don't fit;
for example "banana" in the above example, I would suggest not going there.

Again, sorry I brought this up, but since I did I thought I should point out
this little quirk.

Les