[or-roots] Files and Documents.

[dgoodma02 at comcast.net]

I'll throw my "2 bits worth" (That's and old saying ya know. A dollar being 8 bits., i.e.  2 bits was about a quarter.)
I got into the Geneaology Stuff because My Mom and Dad told me very little about out Family  Lines.  There were just Dad and Mom and me and the dog. I knew my Grand Father and Grand mother Dye (She was a Pryer) and I knew my Grandmother Goodman (She was a McLane) but I knew very little more about my Family.  I also wanted to know my roots.

My main Effort over the last year or so has been to  effort to discover what my lines are.  I even got involved in the Goodman DNA Project and have a DNA Print.   I'm pretty sure now that my Family stems from Old Danish, Scots/scots Irish and Welsh Roots.

That pretty well satisfies me but I continue to Try to learn More.  I have recently ordered a book from England abourt the McLane Clans.  

I'm still looking for more info on the Goodman/ Dye/Pryer lines.  I'ts all interesting and fun also, 'cause You guys are  fun to be involved with. (oops, is that a dangling participle?)


> Cecil;
> 
> As I understand it part of the problem is that they aren't "cast in stone"
> one of the ladies in our local gen society had submitted her family with
> proper proof and documentation and then some distant cousin came along and
> changed a lot of what she had submitted to reflect anecdotal family
> histories that she had labored for years to prove or disprove and had
> conclusively proven were not the facts, but the church in it's infinite
> wisdom allowed him to amend her files and didn't even bother to tell her
> about it, the first she knew about it was when some third party was selling
> her information with the incorrect amendations to it and a fourth party took
> her to task for doing "bad genealogy".
> 
> Are we confused yet?
> 
> The biggest problem is that they are indiscriminate in the online stuff as
> to how it is done, anybody can submit a file to the web site in any
> condition and they just post them, and then some poor amatuer comes along
> and assumes they are gospel and puts them in their tree and furthers the
> crime. I know Iwas guilty of that when I started out I stuck a couple of LDS
> files into my family tree, they are still the root of my maternal
> grandmother's line, but when I started proving things and discovered one of
> the great grands who had only been married once in reality was married to
> her twenty times in my file I smelled a rat. I do not merge files ever
> again, and pretty much no longer use anything that doesn't have sources,
> unless I have confirmed it seperately.
> 
> Of coures I know you are only "supposed" to use stuff you have two "proven"
> original sources for, but I would have gotten bored and/or bankrupted at
> about person number two hundred that way, but I have nearly 9000 folks in my
> family tree, the core of which I am fairly confident of and which I know I
> will not live long enough to prove even a tenth of let alone all of them. My
> only regret is I probably never will ferret out all the bogus relatives I
> have as a result of those first two files.
> 
> Les
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Cecil Houk
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 3:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Uploads and Documentation of Files
> 
> 
> I agree with Gary that LDS files contain errors.  I forget the man's name,
> but one of my 1850's ancestors married his mother on the day he was born...
> according to LDS files.  :-)  It's too bad those files are etched in stone.
> 
> Cecil
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