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From: Evelyn Hendricks <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Questionable Source Cites; Internet
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 11:21:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: <15b.11e177ec.2a7bd048@aol.com>


The library at Salt Lake City also has errors in its material. I wrote to
them way back in the seventies trying to correct an error in a document
they had. They wrote back that the person who submitted the material also
used family records and that they were leaving it as it was.
Evelyn

At 08:08 AM 08/02/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>My opinion of Internet genealogy probably ought not to be expressed in mixed
>company as we used to say. I don't really object to wrong information on the
>Internet fammily trees etc. Wrong dope has always been with us. But, before
>the Internet, when one of my correspondents and I were exchanging info by
>phone or writing, there was usually a process of revision and correction as
>we exchanged opinions. The info on the Internet never seems to get corrected
>or revised. I went through all the Charles Tylers trees the other day on the
>Ancestry.com site. I had done this several months ago and e-mailed several
>folks with suggested revisions. I find that no one has bothered to correct
>the information and there it still exists, misleading and confusing. The same
>sort of thing occurs with DAR records. I have found several egregious
>mistakes in DAR lineage reports. I notified the librarians at the DAR library
>but for me to correct the record required a great deal of effort on my part.
>I couldn't figure out quite why the DAR was not willing to correct their own
>records but as far as I know the records remain to this day, misleading and
>confusing and often just dead wrong. I implore anyone who publishes
>information in whatever format to monitor that info, make sure it is current
>and correct as possible, and remove it from the Internet when it becomes
>obvious that it is too inaccurate to be revised into useful information. I
>would suggest the same for the DAR but I have no hope that they will do
>so-Dale
>
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