Color does not enter into genealogy on my page. I am here to help any and all.
Jean
Teresa Rozich wrote:
I'm not understanding something. I've been posting African
American
queries, slave records and other information for over 2 1/2 years. I was
the first to do so. And I have not received a single complaint.
What are you guys doing different from me? Right now I'm using CCHelper,
and all posts are entered as either just a name with a source (source being
will, or whatever), and sorted by the first name of the slave, and last name
of any owners mentioned. I have a friend who reviews it periodically to
ensure that it's done in a matter of fact way where noone can be offended.
Often, those researching AfAm will post their queries in BOTH of my
databases, so that they can get better results. I have no problems with
that.
By a "central cearing house", do you mean all counties together? I
certainly hope not, because that would be very confusing to use for
research.
Just my opinion here, but since I haven't had these problems, maybe I'm
doing something right?
Teresa R
http://www.lofthouse.com/USA/ga/butts/
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregwain(a)aol.com <Gregwain(a)aol.com>
To: GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com <GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 4:44 PM
Subject: Re: [GAGEN-L] African-American Research complaints
>In a message dated 4/30/99 1:19:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Grmargie(a)aol.com
>writes:
>
><< Subj: Re: [GAGEN-L] African-American Research complaints
> Date: 4/30/99 1:19:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time
> From: Grmargie(a)aol.com
> To: GAGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>
> In a message dated 99-04-20 11:31:28 EDT, you write:
>
> << I point out that I am providing a record for research, not to be
> politically
> correct or to rewrite history. To my mind, substituting other words, or
> otherwise changing the record serves further to point out the silliness
of
> the PC crowd. >>
>
> I also transcribed info and got such negative responses that I no longer
>post
> or transcribe these records. I instead will direct the person to where
the
> records are and invite them to do the transcribing and the advise them
where
> they may submit the info to be posted. I personally think all the info
> should go to one place the African American. The info is so hard to come
by
> that a central clearing house, in my humble opinion is where it should
all
> go. It could then be listed by name and easier to research.
>
> Get this I transcribed a very old census and tax report for Putnam when
> slaves were not listed and just in the past few weeks received a real
nasty
> email about the reports with accusations of being bigoted, biased and
wanted
> to know if I was getting government money for the site.
>
> Putnam is not my site, I just transcribed the info while I was researching
>my
> family there. I politely wrote back and said that I was a volunteer that
> took the time to gather the info for all and that it would be to the
>writer's
> advantage to also take the time to transcribe the information they were
> looking and that way other researchers would benefit from it.
>
> Can't win for losing it seems on this issue.
>
> Margie
>
>
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> What kind of complaints are people getting? I don't guess I understand
what
>there is to complain about. How is someone "bigoted" or "biased"
by
>transcribing public records? It seems to me that "facts are facts".
>
>Thanks,
> Greg Wainright
> County Coordinator - Charlton and Wayne Counties
>
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