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Subject: [DNA] Online Issues
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:10:22 -0400
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I have another online situation where about 15 years ago another
researcher and I wrote a long paper detailing lots of research info and
then theorizing about the potential paternity of the individual involved
- i.e. we were trying to narrow his father between 4 candidates in an
area at the right time. Years later, I found information on the
internet that seemed to confirm two of these disparate theories
separately (i.e. you can only have one biological father - so far
anyhow). I spent months trying to track the sources down. It was
always "something I found online from....". Finally, I did find someone
who would answer me and guess what the source was - yep - my own work
that was hypothesizing. Two different people had taken what they wanted
to see and put it online as gospel, no annotations, nothing. Not only
did I waste a huge amount of time tracking it down - it has become
incorrect gospel - AND now when I'm trying to get descendents from the
various lines to test - they tell me they don't need to because it is
all out there on the internet so they KNOW. How EXASPERATING!!!!!!!



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