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Subject: Re: Editing a Newsletter: Sources
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:16:48 -0400 (EDT)

In my (1) Cleveland; (2) North; and (3) Ross newsletters, i used material
sent me by others, but I usually try to point out exactly who sent it to me,
so that persons disagreeing can take it up with that person, not me. This
may seem like passing the buck, but there is no way a person who publishes a
newsletter, or a list, for that matter, can verify all the data that comes
across the threshhold.

In future issues, why not point out the fact that you welcome all data, but
are NOT responsible for its correctness? Works for me. Good luck - and
don't give up - speaking now as a family genealogist. we need all the
information we can get, from whomever, and it's up to us to decide what we
want to add to our family records, and what we reject because we question its
value to US (but not, perhaps, to someone else).

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