Family talk:Amos Marsh and Mary Eaton (1)

Seeking WR Source for Rootsweb mailing list [19 November 2019]

In reviewing a (bad) edit I made here, I noticed a broken link to a source.

In fixing the link, I attempted to improve the Source (currently a MySource). Would be great to find a WR Source for it, but perhaps JRich, you know better about how to cite a Rootsweb mailing list using a standard WR source instead of a MySource. Link is https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/ct-river-valley.rootsweb.com/thread/30587548/

Original author was P.W. Allred (with associated email address-- from August 2002-- of pwallred@@aol.com), but in Ancestry.com's re-do of the Rootsweb List archives (which led to the broken link), they've replaced the original list-post's author's name to "List User".

Full citation should be something like:

List User [was P.W. Allred ([email protected]], "[CRV] MARSH, Amos - Descendants of," Connecticut River Valley RootsWeb Mailing List, 28 August 2002; https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/ct-river-valley.rootsweb.com/thread/30587548/ (accessed 18 November 2019)

Jillaine 10:22, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

There are several sources that refer to Rootsweb. Since the purpose is to tell the user how to access the source, adding a link in the page number field to one of the generic rootsweb sources would seem sufficient. But I am not the source system architect and probably wrong.

Most of pwallred's posts were based on Marilyn Allred's book (Source:Allred, Marilyn. Town of Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Genealogical Records 1739-1900, Births, Marriages,) which is itself available for download as described on the source page. Hence the data may be obtained from its source and the actual contents cited rather than a copy.

However, I have found literally hundreds of errors in Allred's book, not just due to her lack of non-Warwick knowledge, but her tendency to assumption, misreading, miscopying, confusing children and parents of the same name, etc., e.g., see the note Family:James Eager and Ann Goodell (1), Family:Josiah Gale and Mehitable Wetherell (1). Much better to access primary source, i.e., the Warwick VRs available on the familysearch.org directly, rather than an error-prone secondary source, since these primary records are available. --Jrich 14:13, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, JRich. Good to know that Warwick's VRs are online now. At the time I did this research, very little was online. I remember visiting the Warwick public library in person and flipping through transcribed pages-- and I now wonder how much of that was Allred's inaccurate work.... Jillaine 19:25, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

And thanks, JRich, for finding the original Warwick VRs. When I looked through the catalog at familysearch.org, I only found the Mass VR index; the link re the actual Warwick VRs indicated it was only available at an LDS family history center, but you clearly were able to find and link to the actual record. Jillaine 12:44, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

[1], select County, then select Town. Need familysearch account, they're free. Apparently a digital collection that gives access to part of a film that is in whole restricted? For Warwick, vol 1 appears to be an original. Births some deaths starting late 1760 or thereabout up to 1800 and marriages (some intentions but few marriages before 1800) to about 1840. vol 2 alphabetized family registers so birth and deaths from around 1800 to 1840 or so. May be a copy, some family have births before 1800 so possibly added from family Bibles? vol 3 and vol 4 pick up about 1840 or so using forms similar to state birth, death and marriage records. Some towns have sparse records or only copies, so can't assume every town has quality records, but Warwick is pretty well covered. --Jrich 13:59, 19 November 2019 (UTC)