With all the data available on the Internet, genealogy is becoming easier. There are lots of free sites, such as RootWeb, USGenWeb, etc. where lots of genealogy research can be done. And for less than $200 per year you can access the vast amount of information available at Ancestry.com.
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Discussing the Pitfalls of Genealogy |
Genealogy Is Becoming Easier
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 ArchiveDiver |
Genealogy Is Becoming Easier |
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Posts: 46 (03/22/05 08:17:49) |
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Blob2005 |
re: move on | ||
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Posts: 13 (03/22/05 08:26:43) |
Ok, if you really think it is that easy, hurry up and get yours finished, and move on out. That will just leave more available bandwidth to the rest of us who know that it ain't that easy at all.
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ArchiveDiver |
Re: move on | ||
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Posts: 46 (03/22/05 09:03:08) |
Why are you attacking me. I am trying to encourage others to enjoy the hobby of genealogy, and you tell me to move on so you can use more of the genealogy resources. Grow up!
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Unregistered(d) |
Genealogy Has Become Too Easy | ||
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Posts: 0 (03/22/05 17:15:07) |
I don't think it is that easy. You have to document your research and to do that you must write letters, request birth, death and marriage certificates. There are military records, passenger lists, etc. None of this is available on line.
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Guest |
you tell them | ||
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Posts: 148 (03/23/05 06:44:17) |
Blob2005, I have moved on to a new hobby. I now spend time reading this message board and posting useless messages, just like you do.
Edited by: ArchiveDiver at: 3/22/05 10:13 am You tell them AD |
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easy, huh? | ||
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Posts: 0 (03/23/05 11:08:54) |
Anyone who thinks it is that easy either descends entirely from individuals who left excellent records or is clueless about what they are doing. My gut tells me the latter is the case.
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ArchiveDiver |
Re: easy, huh? | ||
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Posts: 46 (03/24/05 09:33:08) |
dmanns and genieman,
I agree with you that genealogy isn't easy now, but it is becoming easier. Why are you complaining to me. Try to enjoy it instead of getting angry because it's not easy now. Just wait a few years, and genealogy will become so easy that a novice could do it. |
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Unregistered(d) |
Trolling for comments | ||
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Posts: 0 (03/24/05 10:55:11) |
Can you all not spot a troll when you see one?
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ArchiveDiver |
Re: Trolling for comments | ||
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Posts: 46 (03/24/05 11:28:28) |
remax, I don't understand what you mean by troll. Please explain.
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Posts: 0 (03/24/05 13:24:58) |
ArchiveDiver,
Sorry I did not reply to your post. I didn't know a reply was a manditory on this board. And, if it is any of your business. I did send a follow up note and received no reply to that either. |
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ArchiveDiver |
Re: ArchiveDiver | ||
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Posts: 46 (03/24/05 14:16:23) |
dmanns, I don't know what post your talking about. I did not request a response from you. At any rate, it is not mandatory to respond to a request, but it is common courtesy.
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RE: Genealogy too easy | ||
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Posts: 148 (03/24/05 20:34:51) |
Archive Diver:
Your original post which started this thread did state genealogy was too easy. Many of us read it. Then you came back today and changed your mind and edited your original post radically. Why go back and edit the post you made days ago? If everyone did that, none of these forum threads would make any sense, because people are replying to the original post, not to an edit made days later. Give us a break. If you can't stand by your original comment, don't post. The replies to your original post now make no sense because of your edit. If everyone edits their posts days later, this forum will be nonsense. |
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Blob2005 |
re: truth in lying | ||
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Posts: 13 (03/24/05 23:08:49) |
It appears that ArchiveDiver has not only discovered how easy it is to "do genealogy" on the internet, but how easy it is to cover his tracks when he can't keep track of his own lies ... er ... stories.
I'll wager a guess that we're about to see the last of EasyDiver. |
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Guest |
Seeing the last of someone on this board | ||
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Posts: 148 (03/25/05 08:17:33) |
You never see the last of anyone on this board. They just change their name . . .
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ArchiveDiver |
Re: truth in lying | ||
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Posts: 46 (03/25/05 08:21:01) |
Blob2005 and guest, why are you attacking me? I started this thread to talk about how much fun genealogy is now with online databases. You guys are pretending like I said that it's to easy now.
Blob2005, I bet you are also guest and dmanns. Am I right? |
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Blob2005 |
You Got Me | ||
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Posts: 13 (03/25/05 08:22:32) |
AchiveDiver, you got me. Not only am I guest and dmanns, but I am genieman also. I think that remax figured out that I was a troll, but you thought he was talking about you.
I had you going for a while. |
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ArchiveDiver |
Re: You Got Me | ||
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Posts: 46 (03/25/05 08:56:23) |
Blob2005/guest/dmanns/genieman,
Yes, you had me going. You must have been waiting for my response because you responded only a minute after my previous post. Very funny! Now let's get back to genealogy. |
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Guest |
Archive Diver | ||
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Posts: 148 (03/25/05 09:18:47) |
Maybe you want to play games, but I'm not interested. By editing your posts and then denying it, you prove you have an agenda other than genealogy discussions. You can deny what you originally posted. However, the records prove you edited your posts.
Look down at the bottom on your original post, made on 3/22/05 at 7:17pm and you will see "Edited by Archive Diver at: 3/24/05 12:53 pm." You also edited the reply you made to Blob on 3/22/05 at 3/24/05 12:57pm. Then you edited the reply you made to dmanns and genieman (originally made at 8:33 on 3/24) at 3/24/05 at 1:02 pm. That means you changed them all. That means, no matter what you say, the post there now is proven to be not what you said originally. Duh. Why edit your posts? You can deny what you originally wrote, but you can't deny you changed your posts. At least there's a record that you are changing them. Why attack you? So people will be aware that your answers are like a chameleon's appearance. They change with the color of the other posts. 
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ArchiveDiver |
Re: Edits | ||
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Posts: 46 (03/25/05 09:26:23) |
Blob2005/guest/dmanns/genieman,
I noticed that I had made several typos in my previous posts. I edited them to fix the typos. I'm pretty bad at proof-reading my typing, and I usually make several typos. I'll try not make any typos in the future. I agree that we should get back to discussing genealogy. If you do not want to discuss genealogy, then please stop posting to this thread. It would also be good if you used only one ID. |
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Guest |
typos | ||
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Posts: 148 (03/25/05 09:36:23) |
I guess you didn't make any typos on that thread "Ancestry.com ripped me off while I slept..."
I hope you know your original post can be recovered. You're not fooling anyone except yourself. And by the way, I'm not any of the other three posters you accuse me of being. If you look at their other replies on this board (they each have posted many times) and you were being objective, you'd probably realize they are different people. Yep, there are several people "attacking" you. Maybe it's something you said -- er -- let me edit that -- maybe it's something you didn't say? |
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Posts: 0 (03/25/05 10:16:02) |
I remember this post being originally labeled something like "Genealogy has become too easy." I read it on 3/23/05. The gist of original poster's message was they found almost all their family on the free sites and Ancestry and genealogy was too easy now and they would have to find another hobby. (Did I dream it?)
That's completely different from what is there now! Typos had nothing to do with it. Is there some way the moderator can print the original thread before it was altered yesterday as a separate thread? That way the it would make sense again, and the replies would make sense because they would be to the original comment. Leave both the altered an the unaltered version as different threads. That would make those of us who want to make sense of it happy, and those who altered their typos happy as well. I can understand why the board might allow edits within one day, but to let them edit the posts days later is to invite more chaos on this board than it can function with. What's the point of trying to have an intelligent discussion on a subject if someone can alter their posts days later and destroy the whole thread? It would be a shame if this kind of problem destroyed the board. Who wants to seriously reply if someone going to change the thread later by changing their original comments? |
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