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From: David Faux <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ancestry new policy
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:21:32 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20040503133828.24522.qmail@web50702.mail.yahoo.com>


Hello Doug and List:

As someone who has hopped from library to archive all over the world for 30 years to compile a fully documented (from primary sources) genealogy, I get moe than a little nervous when I hear anyone saying that they spent months assembling a genealogy from Ancestry.com etc. We all know that these databases are replete with errors, repeat other's mistakes over and over, and seldom contain sources. I get a little twitchy thinking that those who claim to trace their ancestry to the early Middle Ages and the DNA of Somerled might be using questionable sources in their work. Say it aint so.

I claim a pedigree in my father's paternal Faux line to the late 1300s, and the de Mondefords (Dorothy de Mondeford married John Faux gent. of Mundford, Norfolk England) back to the 1100s since I have used wills, manorial records, etc. and paid researchers thousands of dollars to get there.

Just a plug for "old fashioned" genelaogy - still the only route to take to get to the Middle Ages.

David.

Doug McDonald <> wrote:


It took me months to piece together my own tree from
Rootsweb, Genealogy.com and a little bit from the LDS
because of mistakes.

Doug McDonald






Dr. David K. Faux, P.O. Box 192, Seal Beach, CA, 90740, USA


www.davidkfaux.org



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