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== '''Beware of Information without Sources Attached''' == | == '''Beware of Information without Sources Attached''' == | ||
Often people have just looked through these family trees and decided that the people, dates and places that they found are correct, and then add that information to their own family tree without researching whether or not the information is correct. If the data you find on a website doesn't have a [[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|source attached]] or merely says something like: "Note book number 2," beware, the information may not be correct. | Often people have just looked through these family trees and decided that the people, dates and places that they found are correct, and then add that information to their own family tree without researching whether or not the information is correct. If the data you find on a website doesn't have a [[Cite Your Sources (Source Footnotes)|source attached]] or merely says something like: "Note book number 2," beware, the information may not be correct. When an owner of a family tree is contacted regarding some information that they have published, they will frequently respond with the answer that they found that information on someone else's online family tree. In other words, they don't know their information is correct; they are simply copying someone else's dubious posting. | ||
== '''Check For Consistency of Dates and Locations''' == | == '''Check For Consistency of Dates and Locations''' == | ||