John Thank you, and well said, On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:37 PM, John Raposo <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me begin by saying that Familysearch and geneall are notoriously > unreliable and often contradictory. Having said that, I am a great believer > in not re-inventing the wheel. I readily expropriate previously published > research. However, I always verify. Verifying is a lot easier than > researching and generally takes a fraction of the time. If I cannot verify > the information from the expropriated tree, then I do not assume it as my > own. Anybody who is using Carlos Machado or Rodrigo Rodrigues or Gaspar > Frutuoso is expropriating their research. How reliable is it? Even those > luminaries have made some clearly documented errors. > > And, once you leave the safety of vital records back into the Middle Ages, > when such records were not kept, then you are the mercy of other > researchers, and sometimes conflicting prime and secondary sources. And just > because 12 sources say that Gonçalo Velho Cabral descends from Afonso III > while only two say that he does not, does not mean that the 12 are correct > and the 2 are wrong. One would think that genealogy is more science than it > is art, but I am not convinced. > > A happy New Year to all, filled with may genealogical treasures! > > John M. Raposo > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when > they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right > that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
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