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From: "sisterj w" <>
Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: ROOTS-L Digest V03 #180 on sharing
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 14:03:59 +0000


I, too have been watching this thread, and have copied parts of two replies
below. When I was first starting out over a year ago, I found a person on a
Rootsweb name list who looked like she had common ancesters with me, so I
emailed her. We did have, and she asked me for my family info. I emailed
her what I had up to the present, but some was not verified. I didn't know
the importance of it back them. A few weeks later, I checked on Rootsweb
again, and found my current family info on the net, along with a typo date
mistake. I emailed her the correct date, then, found another person who
had info on my family line! Emailed him, and his reply was the info I had
sent to first person, along with the mistake! After that I was very
cautious about how much info I give in the first or second contact. I
agree, part of the fun is meeting others and sharing, but we don't really
'meet' or know who or what the other person is like at first. Besides, I am
a private person, and don't like my family history made available for
everyone to view. Since then, I have met quite a few people who are
researching various family lines of mine and now have a running
correspondence with them. Joanne

>I have been watching this thread, and I don't understand the point of
>giving the information if you don't give dates, places, etc. going to be
>useful to others. By giving the bare bones it is worth nothing and a waste
>of time, and there is no point answering the query. >

>When I first started my research I posted a query on a message board about
>my family. I had searched Rootsweb and Ancestry and did not find them
>listed on any trees. The next week I searched again and found the
>information from my query listed on a ladies' family tree. She listed my
>name and email as her source. She did not contact me at all to see if I had
>documentation for this information,which I did not at the time. I do not
>mind sharing at all, but she couldn't know if this information was correct
>or not. For all she knew I could have made it up!>

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