tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post6196014709576609083..comments2024-03-21T19:08:05.737-07:00Comments on Genealogy's Star: Copy and Paste Genealogy -- Is this the future?James Tannerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02989059644120454647noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-20441177982772159502013-09-13T13:04:47.750-07:002013-09-13T13:04:47.750-07:00I use online family trees as guides. If I find th...I use online family trees as guides. If I find the name of someone I'm researching, I click the link and examine the evidence. A lot of times there IS no evidence, but I still use what I find as a stepping stone. I love census records and am a HUGE fan of familysearch.org. I must admit to doing the "copy and paste" thing when I first started, but not anymore. I've been "doing" genealogy now since the 80's, and seriously since computers caught up with the science of researching dead relatives. I greatly enjoyed your article. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-44158068879002816232013-09-12T12:26:56.372-07:002013-09-12T12:26:56.372-07:00Interesting article, James. It reminded me of how ...Interesting article, James. It reminded me of how I once did the same thing - not researching the known ancestors on a pedigree chart because they were already found. I wrote about my experience at http://yvonnesgenealogyblog.blogspot.ca/2013/09/learning-from-past-mistakes.htmlYvonne Demoskoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13337822921875324881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527613590529958801.post-5064054924904386112013-09-12T07:52:20.298-07:002013-09-12T07:52:20.298-07:00[Corrected copy James. I had a missing NOT]
Oh bo...[Corrected copy James. I had a missing NOT]<br /><br />Oh boy! This horrifies me James.<br /><br />Searching for missing ancestors and ignoring ones "shown" to have existed by others is a sort of glorified train-spotting. Even if I were being generous, I would not describe it as "family history", thus distinguishing between the mere creation of some lineage chart and a study of all things historical about your family. In the latter pursuit, all items of evidence are important since you're not simply wanting to show someone of that name existed - you want to fill-out as much of their lives as possible.<br /><br />With online trees, in those rare circumstances where someone has actually cited a source, that could be used to arbitrate when trees disagree with each other - a quite common situation that will never disappear. Hence, the more sources you can quote then the better your case stands against anyone else's. The credibility of some iitem depends on the supporting evidence, not on the number of other trees that agree with it. I know this through experience having found that I have well-researched data, with many supporting sources, disagreeing with dozens of others which have not one cited source between them, and which are likely copy-and-pasted from one another.Tony Proctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330460400737261264noreply@blogger.com