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[add comment] [edit] WelcomeWelcome to WeRelate, your virtual genealogical community. We're glad you have joined us. At WeRelate you can easily create ancestor web pages, connect with cousins and other genealogists, and find new information. To get started:
If you need any help, we will be glad to answer your questions. Just go to the Support page, click on the Add Topic link, type your message, then click the Save Page button. Thanks for participating and see you around! --Support 18:34, 9 January 2013 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Living people [16 January 2013]I noticed that you have created pages for people who are likely still living (for example: living children of Family:William Swoboda and Ida Zwiefelhofer (1) and Family:Bernard Swoboda and Bernadette Mayer (1) ). WeRelate's policy does not allow the creation of pages for living people due to privacy concerns. Please delete your Person and Family pages for living people by clicking on More>Delete from the menu on the left of each page. Thank you,--Jennifer (JBS66) 07:12, 16 January 2013 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Did you make a typo? [14 February 2013]Person:Ebenezer Ayer (2) [add comment] [edit] Sources [17 March 2013]It is not really useful to add data without also citing the sources that tell people how you know, since you clearly did not live when at the time given by some of the information you are inputting. This goes triple when you change data that is already there, and goes ten times over when the data that is already there has a source justifying it, as in Person:Ebenezer Ayer (1). You changed the birth location to New Hampshire when a record of his birth in Haverhill, Mass., was made by the town clerk (see here, near the bottom]. Without some pretty good evidence that your location is correct, which you didn't supply, most reasonable people are going to assume you are wrong. If they have been doing genealogy for any length of time, they know how many errors there are on the Internet, and they will assume you simply copied an error and erase it. That is unfortunately the nature of collaboration with strangers: they are not going to believe you unless you provide justification for your data. Every fact should have a source entered explaining how you know it. As a general guideline, the source should not simply be some other website that has no source. It should be something that is going to convince another person who may not agree. Ideally, it should be a primary source (contemporary with the event or official record) or at least a reputable genealogist, or a reputable genealogy magazine, or a secondary source that identifies one of those as the source of its information. Same for Person:John Ayer (11) where you changed his birth location to New Hampshire when a record of his birth is found in Buxton, Maine, along with the rest of his siblings (see here). Further the death record for John L Ayer gives his birthplace as Buxton (see here), also. Without an explanation or evidence, your input appears to be wrong. --Jrich 17:18, 17 March 2013 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Double-dating [18 March 2013]It would appear from your change to Person:Lydia Rice (5) that you do not understand what double-dating is. I did not read the article, but the following links appears to be an explanation of double dating aimed at people who don't understand it. Until you understand double-dating and the calendar shift from Julian to Gregorian, you should not attempt to do any dates prior to 1753. 9 Mar 1628 is actually an ambiguous date and is not as valid (i.e., not as correct) as 9 Mar 1627/28 which is completely and precisely specified. Also, as in the previous note, you also appear to have ignored sources on the page that justified the data as it was. This is not good collaboration, nor very courteous. That information is put there to explain why the data was entered the way it was. It is not okay to ignore it. If you disagree it should be addressed, typically by providing sources of equal or higher quality, showing a different answer is correct. --Jrich 17:44, 17 March 2013 (EDT) I went back and tried to correct the items that you pointed out.--SchneiderFamily 20:47, 17 March 2013 (EDT)
Thank you for your nice note - it's painful to get these nasti-grams. Especially because I am a very courteous person!! :) [add comment] [edit] Welcome Rice Cousin! [18 March 2013]Greetings Schneider Family, Welcome to WeRelate. I love that you're jumping in, and I see that you've already stepped on a few toes. It happens. Don't worry too much about it. It's all a learning curve... I see you've been working on the Henry Rice/Elizabeth Moore pages. Are you descended of them? My husband is descended from them through their daughter Hannah Rice who married Richard Taylor of Sudbury. What about you? Jillaine 12:24, 18 March 2013 (EDT) [add comment] [edit] Pages for living people or without dates [8 December 2021]Hi You are probably aware that WeRelate doesn't allow pages for living people, which it defines as anyone born in the last 110 years for which there is no death date. We are getting more rigorous in enforcing this, including no longer allowing trees without dates. If you have a death date for the living person below, or any dates for the others that establish them as deceased, please enter them. Otherwise, their pages will be deleted in about a month. If you need more time, please let me know. Thanks--DataAnalyst 23:07, 8 December 2021 (UTC) Living person: Pages in trees without dates: |
