tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33234606.post3166507851814680352..comments2011-07-22T21:31:15.499-04:00Kevin Letthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12181421913156097908noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33234606.post-4137683249633455992011-05-05T10:21:26.179-04:002011-05-05T10:21:26.179-04:00

Thank you for this blog! I just googled Rootsweb and Ancestry. Frankly I was confused. I had just heard of Rootsweb. I went to the site, and was shocked to see Ancestry at the top right. I don't want to go on there and search the same genealogy I'm getting off Ancestry. Basically I needed some clearing up before wasting time searching what is already on Ancestry.com. So I googled the two

cjcuellar02http://www.blogger.com/profile/05218125708768974954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33234606.post-35850656601262585332008-10-29T23:31:00.000-04:002008-10-29T23:31:00.000-04:00

You absolutely have to take anything you see online, or even in print, with a grain of salt. I like to think of such references as a guide map to looking up those sources for myself. I do not dispel anything I read until I prove it wrong, nor do I accept anything until I prove it right. There are a lot of people who have genealogy as a hobby that would accept those references as the truth.

Kevin Letthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12181421913156097908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33234606.post-9115023182786942672008-10-28T15:24:00.000-04:002008-10-28T15:24:00.000-04:00

I totally appreciate what you are saying but my issue is that my ancestors are Bretons and Ancestry features a lot of fictional family histories such as The gentlemens magazines, fantasy victoriana family tree books,Burkes peerage etc and portrays them as fact to make money.<BR/>I have slowly for the last 5 years watch my group go from being about genealogy to being about ancient propaganda and

Suenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33234606.post-5898357954157465952008-05-24T15:49:00.000-04:002008-05-24T15:49:00.000-04:00

Glad I could be of some help. They have been the giant for a long time, at least in the way of free genealogy. It has been a great run for the project but we all know that even Rome fell eventually. I do not know if this will be the end of the GenWeb but I think it is the end of the GenWeb as we have known it up to this point. Kevin

Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12181421913156097908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33234606.post-4250003674712121752008-05-24T13:06:00.000-04:002008-05-24T13:06:00.000-04:00

Thanks for your great insight and explanation of this matter! I am becoming ever more frustrated with all the Genweb sites because of all the "broken links" I keep getting. I think they are going to see a huge dropoff of visitors to their sites because many won't know how to find them! TH

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