tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728509094770344156.post5331532389356653162..comments2024-02-28T09:41:31.404+00:00Comments on Worldwide Genealogy ~ A Genealogical Collaboration: Internet Genealogy - is this progress?Julie Goucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11368170005503879489noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728509094770344156.post-18671300678305203082015-08-11T01:58:08.739+01:002015-08-11T01:58:08.739+01:00Celia, I'm pretty much on board with your pers...Celia, I'm pretty much on board with your perspective, but I had a couple of years of great research opportunities before I started on a path pretty much like yours. I'm pleased with that, because I came to appreciate the digging in the files part... and know that is still where much of the information is buried. I was able to travel one full summer to those repositories... but that was about all. The Internet has been great, but is not the only way. And, we won't find everything there.<br />Great comment. Thanks for adding it to the discussion! ;-) P.S. Randy Seaver had a great blog post in response to Janet's post, today! ;-)Dr. Bill (William L.) Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04857619677138020430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728509094770344156.post-55568229000389134792015-08-10T21:36:43.765+01:002015-08-10T21:36:43.765+01:00Internet genealogy has been a positive for me. I s...Internet genealogy has been a positive for me. I started back in the 1970s and got as much information as I could from my family members but if I had to travel to find information, I wouldn't have nearly as much as I have found online, including some free documents from familysearch.comKristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06413795611563683135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728509094770344156.post-21171963642663660442015-08-10T06:26:03.615+01:002015-08-10T06:26:03.615+01:00Indexes are not records.
I tell this to "res...Indexes are not records. <br />I tell this to "researchers" young and old. Jody Lutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01166860142168646494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728509094770344156.post-43837129164128538432015-08-09T19:13:54.943+01:002015-08-09T19:13:54.943+01:00Having come to genealogy as at the age of 62, afte...Having come to genealogy as at the age of 62, after parents/grandparents/aunts/uncles/cousins had mainly died - both parents having been babies of their families - I find this article not particularly relevant to myself. I had to use the internet since I retired on no pension (poverty makes one creative). I very quickly sopped as much education as I could from genealogists' blogs, podcasts, and webinars, began to build a careful tree with whatever I could find as relevant high quality sources, and mainly worked on the internet. I searched and found free sources of commercial databases, and/or saved my to-do list for their free days, and used the resources of the local family history libraries (LDS). <br /> I ignored the "one-tree" famiy trees until very recently - now I use them only in relation to my brick walls to try for one more clue of where to look, requesting sources, etc. Books, histories, printed censuses, etc. - there were and are many other sources other than internet-based that I could find. My local genealogy society was/is very helpful. I wrote to various clerks and archivists for particular documents, and saved my shekels to pay for them. I have several friends to talk with about genealogy. Lack of interaction? I don't feel any lack at all, with friends, cousins, and genealogy society in my life. <br />As for complaining about a commercial company - having owned a business during the decade or so when I was married, I'm only too clear that a business is a business trying to make as much money as it can. Period. It's not a benelovent person. It is what it is. I can't be bothered getting fussed about a business not being as helpful as it could be (yes it could be improved, that's not the point). Yes there are errors - but that's exactly why one always looks for more than one rendering of any database. <br />While I would love to travel to see originals, and would be thrilled to do so, the reality is it isn't going to happen. In the meantime, I'm carefully cultivating a niece and one of my daughters as future guardians of the genealogy research I've been able to do on our various lines. And I'm positive they'll be doing much of their research on the Internet... I'll try to help them see other sources as we go along in the learning process. <br />Cheers from a computer-bound amateur genealogist.<br /> Celia Lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04096301290962083820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5728509094770344156.post-53846284814430101062015-08-09T10:26:45.844+01:002015-08-09T10:26:45.844+01:00Nice post Janet, and a subject I feel strongly abo...Nice post Janet, and a subject I feel strongly about too. There are some subtle taints of "genealogy" caused by the revolution of Internet-based genealogy.Tony Proctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18330460400737261264noreply@blogger.com