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Subject: [PACRAWFO-L] Be Kind to Newbies
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:12:36 EST

This is the time of year when a lot of folks get a new computer and start
learning about the internet. As they find our established genealogy lists,
lets remember to be kind to their innocent questions. We need to be
particularly gentle with the folks who find a complete "family tree" on the
net, take it at face value, and begin quoting it to us. Once upon a time, we
were also new to research and were unaware of documenting sources and
citations and the difference between primary and secondary evidence.

And, we can all hope that one of our new internet cousins turns out to be the
one who has all the old original family heirlooms and documents!

Gretchen Kohl [Alameda,CA] -

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