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From: "Barry and Iris McCanna" <>
Subject: Re: Netiquette
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:06:32 +0100


"Richard White" <> wrote in message
news:Pi4W5.3340$...
> But Roy, as I have said to you privately before, there are ways of
helping
> people on to the right track which do not come across as patronising,
> pompous and arrogant as you all too often seem to do. Thankfully there are
> plenty of constructive replies (often yours when you are not on your high
> horse) which encourage the newcomer to explore all the different sources
> of information.
>
> As a busy working man I have little time for getting at original records
at
> the moment. It was the Mormons' provision of the IGI on the Internet that
> first encouraged me to embark on researching my own family history. Of
> course I have since had to go to the FRC, the Society of Genealogists,
> libraries and churchyards to obtain many answers and I have thoroughly
> enjoyed this broadening of my knowledge. But as a result of exchanges on
the
> Internet I have found a fourth cousin in the USA descended from a common
> ancestor in Glass Houghton and two sets of cousins in Northern Ireland and
> Australia with whom I share a common ancestor in Ireland with a pedigree
> going back to 14th century Staffordshire. Of course these exchnges have
left
> me with much more work to do in tracking down original sources to see for
> myself.
>
> It is not wrong to ask even the simplest questions on the Net. This
> wonderful new resource is just one of the many ways of finding, or
learning
> how to find, the right pieces in the jigsaw.
>
> Richard White


To those starting out, and particularly those who live on the other side of
the world, we should help even if the questions are simple to us. To get a
helpful, friendly response will spur someone on to find out more about their
families. To make them feel ignorant and inadequate could put them off
their research completely.

Iris McCanna

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