<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18928"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>I agree, Joan. One of my clients recently asked me to help him "tidy up" his private tree on Ancestry by adding sources and digital images of gravestones. While doing that, I discovered that Ancestry actually has a very workable (if a bit tedious) citation system, and that it will provide most of the same documentation I could get into a well-sourced professional report. Now, if we could only get Ancestry's customers to use it .....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Morris</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=JYoung6180@aol.com href="mailto:JYoung6180@aol.com">JYoung6180@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=laboswell@rogers.com href="mailto:laboswell@rogers.com">laboswell@rogers.com</A> ; <A title=linda@fpr.com href="mailto:linda@fpr.com">linda@fpr.com</A> ; <A title=cindy@rahman.com href="mailto:cindy@rahman.com">cindy@rahman.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=apgpubliclist@apgen.org href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:34 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [APG Public List] Citing Sources - Your Opinion</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>I've always looked at it differently. I've long heard that "you are doing work that benefits the company" but to me, the subscription services are providing a place/forum and resources for us to carry out our research. When we make an addition, transcription, or correction to the data they house and provide for us, we are doing it for ourselves and for other researchers. Any benefits to the subscription service itself is purely secondary. They took the initial step of making the data accessible for us or giving us a place to house our data that otherwise would have cost us directly.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joan</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>