Plagiarism

I've read quite a few complaints from others about people who collect family trees, and post the data they find unedited and unchanged. I hadn't really worried about it until I was prowling around the WorldConnect site last week and found one site that had republished my notes (and thus the results of my own research) without even asking permission. Worst was that they hadn't even credited me as the source of those notes. Of course, the positive side is that if the data is found to be in error, I won't be identified as the one to blame, either.

Finding stuff on the Internet, part 1

John Fuller and Chris Gaunt maintain a super index to Genealogy Resources on the Internet. They list various Internet sites offering USENET newsgroups, mailing lists, and web pages. They even index sites offering less frequently used protocols such as gopher and telnet. Prominent among the resources listed are those housed at RootsWeb.

Since I'm very familiar with the services provided on RootsWeb, I often turn to this listing to find non-RootsWeb resources, particularly mailing lists. For sheer quantity of links, you can't beat Cyndi's List, though.

Introduction

A blank page. A new beginning. Here's a weblog (aka blog) designed to allow me to post interesting things that I might learn about my genealogy -- all in one place -- with links to whatever web resources might exist.

So, I suppose the first thing I should do is provide a link to my published genealogy in the RootsWeb World Connect Project. And then it might be useful to provide a link to my personal genealogical web site.