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From: "Connie Bradbury" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Web Errors
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:28:08 -0900
References: <7EA1287E-81EB-11D8-B579-003065BC2976@rochester.rr.com>


Ed:

Have you (or anyone else) ever gotten a response from a "post-it"? I have
posted several and only got response to one. My MO is to post a message
saying I have additional information about the family or individual, if they
are interested. Guess they weren't.

Connie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Groszewski" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 4:42 PM
Subject: [APG] Web Errors


> Recently I responded to a message on my local genealogy society’s
> board, and was soon contacted by phone by the researcher. In the
> course of our conversation he informed me that the father of one of my
> wife’s ancestor was “Amos.” I have none extensive research on this
> family over five years (state and federal censuses, wills, newspaper
> articles, cemetery records, and vital records) and know that this
> parentage is incorrect. When I asked him where he got his
> information, he replied, “Why, the internet, of course.” Sure enough,
> when I went to that web site Amos was listed as the father - by two
> different people and neither had listed any sources.
>
> I sent this man a copy of my report on this family, along with copies
> of my documentation. I also sent e-mails to the two internet posters
> (I was surprised that one had an “award winning” site on the web.)
> informing them that I believed “Amos’ was not the father of the
> individual in question and that I would be happy to send them a copy of
> my research and asked them to send me their sources. You guessed it -
> it’s been a week now and no response from either.
>
> I will be adding a “Post-it” to these web entries in the hope that this
> might stop, or at least slow down, this error from spreading any
> further. My question: Are there other steps that should be taken in a
> case such as this one?
>
> Ed Groszewski
>
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