> > The objection is not to the WIKI part of it -- the objection is to
> > yet-another-central-depository.
Yet-another-central-depository ........
I'm not sure that there has ever been anything like a 'central
depository', ever. Even for small geographies or specialized
research areas, or localized surnames. Not in pre-Web research.
Not in post-Web research. Never really has been such a thing.
Unless you can somehow make people contribute all possible relevant
information to a particular set of resources or websites, there will
be no 'central depository' that is effective or even partially
complete. Many will be full of information, and include great work,
and many are. But they will not have everything. They can't.
They don't expect to.
People will contribute information and sources and references and
research tips and geographical and historical information and family
data........ where they choose.
Yes, you need to search them all, if you want to find all the clues
available. It's very messy, true. But it is so very worth the
work!
Multiple repositories, multiple sources, multiple sites, multiples
references, multiple contacts with other researchers, arguments and
corrections, and discussions about places and migrations and trends
and people and times.........
Linda S
leoandlinda <leoandlinda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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