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Subject: Re: [TMG] Re: Questionable Source Cites; Internet
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 00:53:16 EDT


Caroline, that is exactly the way I feel. Since I've had my data on World
Connect, I've made contact with a number of very distant cousins. None seemed
bothered by the lack of posted sources. We exchanged data and sources by
email after the initial contact that might not have occured had my sources
been on the internet.

Fran

Caroline Gurney wrote:
> My own reason for putting limited amounts of data on the Internet is to
> enable other researchers who share my interests to contact me. Many of them
> do & I then send them fully sourced data. I see the process as analogous to
> posting to a bulletin board or mailing list, not publishing a genealogical
> work.


Fran Anderson
Olympia, Washington, USA


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