{"id":1692,"date":"2010-03-02T06:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/?page_id=1692"},"modified":"2010-03-02T06:58:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:58:27","slug":"corrections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/corrections\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrections"},"content":{"rendered":"

CORRECTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n

A persistent problem in genealogical research and publication is the massive copying of original work, text and photos, without attribution.\u00a0 One Nash County researcher informed me that some of his work, containing references to his aunts, by name, had been copied and reproduced several times without change or attribution.\u00a0 In other words, some researchers have copied and published, at various places, his original work that includes references to his Aunt Mary as if she was their Aunt Mary.\u00a0 For\u00a0 those of us who have worked on our families for years there is very little that surprises us anymore.\u00a0 I shared information on one of my families once where speculations were posted as facts. Also, it is certain that some of our best researchers are sitting on a massive amount of work reluctant to put anything online because of this problem.\u00a0 The hunger and obsessiveness too often found in our enterprise does produce behavior that scholars views as laughable.\u00a0 I once heard a college-based historian say with a laugh, “I am interested in everyone’s family not just my own!”\u00a0 Simply, the Darwinian excesses of our enterprise requires mechanisms of correction.\u00a0 Therefore, on the Nash County NCGenWeb site, researchers with family in the county, historically and in the modern era, will have a place to correct content errors and to establish that work is their own where their has been publication of their research and writing on their families without attribution.\u00a0\u00a0 All corrections require proof based in the records and verifiable dates of publication.\u00a0 One large problem in getting at the truth about genealogical postings is that FamilySearch and other major websites do not contain internal mechanisms of correction.\u00a0 In fact according to one of the staff people a regional LDS library informed me that in the near future there will be a website where people can make documented corrections on posted information about their families.\u00a0 Unfortunately, at least as of March, 2010,\u00a0 even if the existing posted information is proven by document to be incorrect, it will not be removed.\u00a0 Rather, the information will still appear on FamilySearch as well as the correction.\u00a0 Of course, this is not ideal, however, it is better than the status quo.\u00a0 Several corrections seem to me of such importance that they deserve immediate attention.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 it is not possible for someone to be born in Nash County before 1777, the date of its creation.<\/strong> This mistake occurs frequently on all of the major websites in genealogy; namely, that people are born, for example, in 1759, actually, in some cases, much earlier, in Nash County.\u00a0 Even if they were born on what became my grandfather Bell’s farm on Stony Creek in Nash County, it is not in Nash County in 1759.\u00a0 This fact may seem obvious.\u00a0 It is a frequently appearing error in the posting of eighteenth century births.\u00a0 When I informed one researcher of this fact, his response was that it appeared on FamilySearch.\u00a0 I welcome additional corrections of similar kind by experienced researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CORRECTIONS A persistent problem in genealogical research and publication is the massive copying of original work, text and photos, without attribution.\u00a0 One Nash County researcher informed me that some of his work, containing references to his aunts, by name, had…<\/p>\n

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