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From: kathryn gratop <>
Subject: Re: [ADVANRES] Why Rank or Post Sources?
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 12:55:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIDHIAMHHCHJGHDGNEEOFGNAA.viking@rvi.net>


Personally, I would love to be able to contact someone that I thought was
a "cousin" based on the information he or she has posted on a webpage. In
fact, every time I do find one, I send an email to the posted
contact. Sadly, some of these pages are neglected or forgotten, and I do
not always get a response back, and rarely is there a snail mail address.

Although I suspect Teresa is correct, and your research will be borrowed
whether or not you have sources listed.

Kathryn


At 09:45 AM 5/6/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>With so much attention focused on sources, I'd like to ask two questions (at
>the risk of being accused of heresy).
>
>1. Original or derivative, primary or secondary . . . Why stress over
>ranking sources? If I am thorough in recording a source, doesn't it become
>obvious how much weight should be given to that information?
>
>2. I post my gedcom but am careful to first delete all notes and sources.
>Each online page says that I do have sources and am glad to share with
>anyone who contacts me. This is an attempt, first, to encourage possible
>"cousins" to write and possibly exchange information and, second, to
>discourage mass "borrowing" of my research. Does the absence of posted
>resources damage the credibility of my gedcom? Does it make me a bad
>person?
>
>I'll be happy to change my ways if someone can give me good reasons for
>reforming.
>
>
>

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