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From: "Susan Nicholson" <>
Subject: FW: Genealogy & The Internet
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:48:14 -0000


Not being the best at putting my feelings into words, this message to the
list has been 'almost' deleted a couple of times with the thought that maybe
it had been sent by mistake.
However my finger just would not press the button , so -
Not wanting to cause any ill feeling amongst the listers - I would like to
put in my two pennorth. I have been researching my family in Devon for going
on 30 years and I still find it one of the most difficult counties to
research. While I think it a very good idea to post as many tutorials as the
'Web' will hold (I too need them as desperately as any beginner) I do think
we are being rather unkind by knocking those who send SKS messages - I do
admit to doing it myself on the many occasions when I have been floundering.
I also know as well as anyone else that to be handed information on a
plate - is a rare occurence, but - now and again someone will get their
gander up and shout back - why don't you look at so and so - 'BRILLIANT'

Isn't that what the list is for - whether we 'ask for a favour' or 'if
anyone knows' or ask for SKS - however we word it , it is all the same
thing and without them what is the point of having a list. Same with the
'Grumps' I love 'em - without them we would never get any tutorials either.

Sue Nicholson of Lancashire
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kaye Cole [mailto:]
Sent: 13 February 2000 06:29
To:
Subject: Re: Genealogy & The Internet


Kaye Cole wrote:

Yvonne I agree with most of what you have to say, and am currently thinking
about
ways of doing something about the problem. I must say I'm becoming less and
less
happy to look up resources I do have (such as the 1851 census of Devon etc.)
as I
begin to wonder whether people have made any effort at all for themselves.
Are we
moving into what one of my posters very aptly called <sks genealogy> ? There
is certainly a
limit to my sks tolerance.

Two thoughts occur: one is to post a basic tutorial on essential non-net
sources, and I'm
thinking of developing such with a couple of other people for dispatch with
every welcome
message to new listers, plus referring to its availability every time
someone asks <how do I
find the parish register for X ?>. The other tactic is simply to get a bit
tough every time
someone asks, for example, for a lookup in an unindexed census, and post
them saying
why they WON'T get a response and what they should do to help themselves.
I've noticed
Brian Randall has adopted a tactic like this, and wonder if we should divide
the work
among a few of us- I do the censuses, he does the parish registers and so
on.

Let me know what you think.

Regards, Kaye Cole in Melbourne


Fulcher wrote:

> Dear All
>
> Reading several messages about the merits and/or otherwise of the IGI, I
thought the following
> article worthy of passing on:
>
> INTERNET GENEALOGY - WHAT'S GOOD! WHAT'S NOT!
> . . . AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
> by Bettie Cummings Cook, CG
>
> [Published in The Packet, Tri-State Genealogical Society,
> Evansville, IN, vol.XXII, no. 2 (Dec. 1998)]
>
> Before computers there were two kinds of genealogists. The experienced and
the
>

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