From: "WARREN ARTLEY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> There is a lot if information on the internet which is available for on line > searches. I have received a lot of help from them and if there is anything > I can add, I will gladly share it with others. The theory of "what is yours > is ours and what is mine is mine" is a very narrow minded approach. If > everyone felt that way, then there would be no genealogy references or help > on the net. We would then need to dig up or ancestors and ask them for the > information as no one is willing to share with others, and we know that is > impossible. So lets share out information freely with others and we will > all benefit. I so agree. I am actually kind of surprised about how many are just out to get, but totally unwilling to share. I have helped a lot of Americans finding their roots in Norway, and even one of them turned out to be a 3rd cousin that no one knew excisted nor her great grandmother either. Some are not willing to share when they are not related. Well if everybody had the same opinion several second cousins in the USA would not have known about each other. Living in Norway I of course have more resources to look at than somebody in the USA if they are looking for their roots or relatives. Hadn't they been willing to share with me,who is not related or at least not established related yet, they wouldn't today have been able to have the great contact they have, and the enjoyment of having that close relatives in the USA.. It kind of amazes me though when people keep asking me for getting everyhting up to today, when they themselves are totally unwilling to share anything and now I am even talking people who one is related to. You spend hours and hours compiling the information for them and once you have sent it to them it is kind of like they are dead.(or rather I am to them). Luckily most of us see this as a hobby for sharing our findings and the enjoyment of being able to help others with their brickwalls or being able to give them ancestry way back in an area they would have great problems researching. I have my ancestry or a lot of it on a website, but not a source. Not because of ill will, but when I started I did it all for my own benefit and basically to see how I was related to different people, and also I didn't need to as I could basically just look at the name to see which source it came from. No problem people could just contact me and ask, but I do see the problem if I died tomorrow.. I probably never will get down to source each and everything as some do, but I have figured out a way to make people able to figure it out, and then I certainly will put that on my website as well. I don't feel like this is something I have to protect with my life, and so what if someone listed up my ancestors and didn't say it was found on my page. What's the big deal. Ok I did the work and they got it easily, but sure there are times others have done the work and I have gotten it easily. What comes around goes around. I do however have a strong feeling against putting living people on the net. Several of my own family has made that request that their names are not to be on the net, and information would dry up pretty quickly if people do. Fine a lot of it could be find here and there, but quite often you do get help from other members of the family and I don't see any problem respecting their views, and basically if you start with your grandparents(in my case they are all dead), most people who have any connections to the family would be able to find enough information to recognize it as their own. Anne Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
