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From: Mike Humphrey <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Discussion of surname DNA projects not universally welcomed by list...
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:19:44 -0700 (PDT)
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Another affirmative echo: in 30 years of genealogical & historical
researching I've encountered the same classical problems with source
material that other genealogists, historians & scientists often find.

I was fortunate to begin with 10 generations of genealogy, inherited
from my paternal grandfather. Since then I've found numerous errors
in reference sources, including "trusted" ones, and in some cases,
I was able to eventually find the original source of some these
specific errors. E.G., in my local public library I a document,
referenced by the Mormon Church, with poor copies of handwritten
records of birthdates in Windsor, Connecticutt, and Lyme Regis,
Dorset, and "1617" became "1611", because of illegibility.

Researchers needed to be careful long before the advent of
Arpanet-Darpanet-Internet.

My 2cents ...

Mike ...
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--- Larry Slavens <> wrote:
> > This is most unfortunate, yes. The ironic thing is that, while many people
> > don't trust data found online, because they have heard that data found
> > online is riddled with errors, it is a fact that every scrap of genealogy
> > data found online has been dervived from offline sources, so how are
> offline
> > sources any more trustworthy?
>
> Exactly. In my case, the "authority" on my family line is a booklet written
> in
> the 1960's and updated about 1970, which in turn is an expansion on a
> genealogy
> written in the 1940's. . . .
>
> Larry Slavens
> Slaven DNA Project
>
>
> ==============================
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> to:
> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
>


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