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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 411847" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>I don't tape..........I sound horrid on tape. lol</p><p></p><p>But I'm the one with all the family stories........for both sides. Well, husband has some from his side, but mother in law told me the bulk and that stuff I tend to remember as my grandma instilled in me how important it is to know. She was big on the "if you don't know where you come from how will you ever know where you're going?" thing. </p><p></p><p>And I've been passing them down since my kids were small.........and continue to do as they are adults, and even have been doing it with the grands since they were very small. They actually eat it up. lol Pretty cool to hear how great grandma did such and such when she was a kid. lol It's something I do automatically and spontaneously. Something going on will trigger the memory of a particular story or group of stories and out they come. With the grands I'll often go find a picture of the person if they don't know who they are........because they always ask me to so they know who I'm talking about. </p><p></p><p>Ancestry.com is good..........but be sure to double check any info yourself before assuming someone really did the work and got the facts straight.</p><p></p><p>I have a cousin, a very very intelligent cousin, who is also an idiot. He came up with a brilliant method for searching family trees ect. So brilliant it was published and it was a major seller. He used my maternal grandma's tree for the book. I do recall mom calling me to make sure her vital information on my family was correct, I corrected what was wrong........and even corrected a lot for the rest of the family while at it. (like I said, grandma had spouted this info to me from early childhood I could still reel it off without effort) Book comes out, Mom is all excited and brings her copy when she comes to visit. I thought it was pretty cool too, until I started looking stuff up. My birthdate was wrong. He had husband's birthdate wrong, and had him born in Il when he was born in oh. ALL my kids info was wrong. So I look at others..........99 percent of the info in that book was wrong.........he did fine on getting grandma's birthdate correct and those of her children and his own sibs........after that? Phhht. All wrong. I was livid. Especially after like dealing with 10 or more long involved phone calls while he was writing the darn book to make certain info was correct. </p><p></p><p>And I'm sorry, but if you can't get living people's information correct when it's so easy to get? Then how much ancestry info did you mess up when old records ect can be tough to dig through and be sure you have the right person and not just someone with the same name? ugh</p><p></p><p>The really sad part? People bought his book to learn HOW to do family genealogies. No matter how much family protested.......he never made corrections. phht.</p><p></p><p>So my warning...........don't just take someone else's word for it. They could be wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 411847, member: 84"] I don't tape..........I sound horrid on tape. lol But I'm the one with all the family stories........for both sides. Well, husband has some from his side, but mother in law told me the bulk and that stuff I tend to remember as my grandma instilled in me how important it is to know. She was big on the "if you don't know where you come from how will you ever know where you're going?" thing. And I've been passing them down since my kids were small.........and continue to do as they are adults, and even have been doing it with the grands since they were very small. They actually eat it up. lol Pretty cool to hear how great grandma did such and such when she was a kid. lol It's something I do automatically and spontaneously. Something going on will trigger the memory of a particular story or group of stories and out they come. With the grands I'll often go find a picture of the person if they don't know who they are........because they always ask me to so they know who I'm talking about. Ancestry.com is good..........but be sure to double check any info yourself before assuming someone really did the work and got the facts straight. I have a cousin, a very very intelligent cousin, who is also an idiot. He came up with a brilliant method for searching family trees ect. So brilliant it was published and it was a major seller. He used my maternal grandma's tree for the book. I do recall mom calling me to make sure her vital information on my family was correct, I corrected what was wrong........and even corrected a lot for the rest of the family while at it. (like I said, grandma had spouted this info to me from early childhood I could still reel it off without effort) Book comes out, Mom is all excited and brings her copy when she comes to visit. I thought it was pretty cool too, until I started looking stuff up. My birthdate was wrong. He had husband's birthdate wrong, and had him born in Il when he was born in oh. ALL my kids info was wrong. So I look at others..........99 percent of the info in that book was wrong.........he did fine on getting grandma's birthdate correct and those of her children and his own sibs........after that? Phhht. All wrong. I was livid. Especially after like dealing with 10 or more long involved phone calls while he was writing the darn book to make certain info was correct. And I'm sorry, but if you can't get living people's information correct when it's so easy to get? Then how much ancestry info did you mess up when old records ect can be tough to dig through and be sure you have the right person and not just someone with the same name? ugh The really sad part? People bought his book to learn HOW to do family genealogies. No matter how much family protested.......he never made corrections. phht. So my warning...........don't just take someone else's word for it. They could be wrong. [/QUOTE]
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