No, anything on the Internet, whether it is FamilySearch or Ancestry or Geni or a personal web page or or or. All are suspect in my book. Especially if they don't bother to source it. They've copied someone else.
If it says Fred Flintstone was born 1 Jan 100 B.C. in Bedrock, I go to the Bedrock births and find the birth record for Fred. My source is then the Bedrock Birth Records and I make a citation for that. I may have used FamilySearch or whatever as a guideline to speed up my research, but I don't cite them. Same thing if I find Fred Flintstone married Wilma Slaghoople on 1 Jun 80 B.C. in Bedrock. I go for the marriage record itself, only using the information from the Web to point me in the right direction. If it says Fred died 1 Dec 50 B.C. and lists no location, I may look around that date in Bedrock and then expand my search to other localities where his kids are living or expanding over town by town, looking to see if he died in a hospital a larger town over. However, as I'm researching Fred I see that the tree mentions Wilma is from Slaterock. Although I'm up to my eyeballs in Flinstones in Bedrock and I'm working on locating the actual records there, I will enter in my genealogy program that Wilma was born in Slaterock? I put a question mark after it. That's my sign that I need to check it out. In my memo field I write that I found it on FamilySearch or the Flintstone Tree on Ancestry, but I don't make a citation for it. When I finish up with the Flinstones, I then go back and start working the Slaghooples. I can see my notation to go back to the tree on FamilySearch or wherever, and use that as a guideline to find the records in Slaterock to trace Wilma et al. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- For 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
