Comments on: Is My Family Already On The Internet? http://www.shaunahicks.com.au/is-my-family-already-on-the-internet/ Family and Local History Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:53:19 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Shelley http://www.shaunahicks.com.au/is-my-family-already-on-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Shelley Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:59:13 +0000 http://www.shaunahicks.com.au/?p=271#comment-70 That's a coincidence - I thought to check Worldconnect for one of my ancestors just today. I hadn't looked in ages. I found him there and a few more generations besides. This time the information looks promising. My past experience of searching uploaded GEDCOMs has been that there's a lot of cut-and-paste genealogy out there, with little regard for verification. Perhaps the reason we did more of these searches pre-internet is actually because making contact required more effort. The contacts you did make were more likely to be serious researchers. That’s a coincidence – I thought to check Worldconnect for one of my ancestors just today. I hadn’t looked in ages. I found him there and a few more generations besides. This time the information looks promising. My past experience of searching uploaded GEDCOMs has been that there’s a lot of cut-and-paste genealogy out there, with little regard for verification.

Perhaps the reason we did more of these searches pre-internet is actually because making contact required more effort. The contacts you did make were more likely to be serious researchers.

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