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From: Sam Koester <>
Subject: Re: Ancestry.com
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:58:50 -0800


Hi Susan, Thanks so much for your response but; are you sure you aren't
describing the Family Tree Maker site rather than Ancestry.com? Thanks for your
help. Sam Koester

Susan Jones wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> After you have typed in the person's name you are looking for, it will come
> up with the screen with the options where this name is found. If there is a
> name in the ancestral files, you will find, when you go to that page, a
> column on the right hand side of an entry for that name that will state:
> contact contributor" or something to that effect. Just click on that and
> it will give you the name and e-mail address of the contributor of that
> piece of information. Then, just write down their e-mail address and fire
> off a note to them. I have done that several times, wanting to know what
> documentation they used to back-up their facts. Have had both good and bad
> results. Some addresses change, or no hard facts to back them up. Others
> had all kinds of documents they were willing to share in exchange for any
> documents you may have on members of that family lineage.
>
> Sue
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Koester <>
> To: <>
> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 2:46 AM
> Subject: Ancestry.com
>
> >I'm hoping list members can help my cousin and I with this one. We are
> >researching our Fraga line which we have had very little success on.
> >Recently my cousin found a number of Fraga marriage dates on
> >Ancestry.com. How do we find out where they got the information so that
> >we might get a photocopy of the original record? We have written to the
> >state archives in the past with no success so the information must have
> >come from somewhere else. The marriages range from the late 1870's to
> >the early 1900's and are in Rhode Island, probably Providence or East
> >Providence.
> >
> >Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
> >
> >Warmly, Sam Koester
> >
> >
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