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Not to rain on your parade, but please, please be very careful in what you choose to use
from any non-sourced information on the internet. There are many, many places online with
information you can find on your ancestors which have no basis in fact for the information
provided. Many beginning researchers do just as Neva has suggested and don't take the
time to verify sources for anything, choosing to believe that if it's posted it must
be true. I speak from experience as I was one of those when I first began my research
many years ago. But unless there are records to back up the information you find (sources
such as birth/death records, church records, census records, etc.) take what you see with
a grain of salt. Since becoming more serious about source finding, I have created two
versions of my database...one with unproven information I have collected, as a
"speculative" database and the other with carefully researched information,
sources included...
I just want to give the warning and try and keep others from making the same mistakes I
did... It took a lot of work (and is, in fact still ongoing many years later!) to try and
clear up what can be proved and what cannot. And while it's fun to look at the
unproven information, most of it cannot be taken with more than a grain of salt...
-Christi Calvert Brogan