Hi Cynthia and John and interested others
I do not wish to take issue with your assessment, in my 44 years plus,
working on my family tree, I have seen those UGLY name collectors. When I
first discovered the Internet in the 1980's I posted my data with great
excitement, but to my distress my stuff was downloaded to a man that today
has over 147,000 names in his list . I did not know how to privatize or how
to protect the living. But to his credit he did remove the living when I
asked. Today my 93,618 is still growing as fast as I can one handedly type
it in because I have found so many sources for West Virginia stuff and
being as how WV is my favorite state genealogy wise. Neat thing is that as I
was growing up here in California there were many Oakie and Arkie jokes
about the people that were born, live and die in that state that I am still
totally amazed that none of the stereotypes fit. Many of my "NEW" names
are coming from DON NORNMAN'S FAMILY FILES and most of the entries are blood
related to me. And God bless West Virginia for allowing research of their
vital records which have allowed me to verify and add to what I already
have. GOLLY I enjoy genealogy and LEGACY.
Love, Light, Rainbows and Blessings
Sandra Tyler Duncan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John B. Lisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:26 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Name Collections (Was: Researchers' Addresses)
> Cynthia,
>
> I wish to take issue with your blanket assessment that any database
> over 45,000 people is just a collection.
>
> I have been researching the Stedman/etc family for years and have
> developed a main database of over 65,000 names and ancillary
> databases of about another 10,000 name. Almost every name in those
> databases have been hand entered by myself from data submitted to me
> by family members from all over the world.
>
> Richard Weber maintains a database in Legacy of about 250,000 names
> for the Sprague family that has been developed with care over years.
>
> I could go on and on.
>
> We can all accept that there are several name collections in
> ancestry.com and elsewhere; however, to blithely dismiss every large
> database as unworthy is a disservice to researchers who have
> dedicated much of their time to developing superior research sources.
>
> John Lisle.
> Nashua, NH
>
> At 11:09 AM 4/23/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >...
> >However, when I see someone at ancestry.com who lists a database of
> >45,000 + then I know most are just collecting, collecting,
> >collecting for the sheer number of the exercise and usually have no
> >connection other than to be 'harvesting' information. I do not list
> >these folks. For those of you who use ancestry.com I am sure you
> >can understand this assessment.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Cynthia N. Russell in Michigan
>
>
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