Re: Genealogy For The Beginner

"J. Hugh Sullivan" <Eagle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:47b60295.32453555@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> All that can be sourced to the Family History Library,
> Ancestry.com and other sources. So much for sources without adequate
> confirmation. A lot of people are just lousy genealogists - and a
> bunch of them don't seem to care.
>

But that shows that the system works - they give their source, which is 
readily seen to be unreliable and the info can therefore be discarded.

One of my other incarnations has been as a member of an editorial board
for 
a scientific journal. Even when deling with professionals, with apparently

fairly well-enforced professional standards, I've still been saddened by
the 
low standards of research and historical verification by some. It's going
to 
happen, the only thing to do is find work-arounds.
"Everyone says, therefore it's true" is the fastest way to start alarm
bells 
ringing.
Lesley Robertson