My wife has been an avid genealogist for many years. When we retired, she spread the bug to me. I began focusing on our family, striving to assure members are recorded as completely and accurately as possible. I have since expanded to try to do my part for those I encounter beyond our family.

Our main family tree branches are the Applebys, Colemans, Cormiers, Howlands, Jacobsons, Kerrs, Lipkes, and Troons .

I enjoy the puzzle solving element of genealogy. It is also rewarding to know that research I've done or contributed to not only helps preserve the memory of those who have passed, but may also help other genealogists solve their own family or friends puzzles.

To best honor those who are being memorialized, I believe we have an obligation to get things right. I know there are some who feel it is better to put as much information as possible "out there," even if it isn't all correct, so that it may act as a clue for future researchers. I believe doing that can send people down the wrong path, waste time, and perpetuate misinformation. And it is a disservice to those being memorialized. I have discovered and witnessed among my own ancestors instances in which someone mistakenly or carelessly grabbed the wrong person for a family tree. Once it is attached, many others use that information as fact and attach to additional trees. Ancestry then "suggests" a possible ancestor for a person in a new tree, and that is accepted as fact, too. Before long, there are many trees with the erroneous information and it spreads to other genealogy sites like FAG.

So, please don't be offended if I ask you for a source for your suggested edits, and please don't be offended I don't accept an edit when the only source offered is an unsourced family tree on another site.

My wife has been an avid genealogist for many years. When we retired, she spread the bug to me. I began focusing on our family, striving to assure members are recorded as completely and accurately as possible. I have since expanded to try to do my part for those I encounter beyond our family.

Our main family tree branches are the Applebys, Colemans, Cormiers, Howlands, Jacobsons, Kerrs, Lipkes, and Troons .

I enjoy the puzzle solving element of genealogy. It is also rewarding to know that research I've done or contributed to not only helps preserve the memory of those who have passed, but may also help other genealogists solve their own family or friends puzzles.

To best honor those who are being memorialized, I believe we have an obligation to get things right. I know there are some who feel it is better to put as much information as possible "out there," even if it isn't all correct, so that it may act as a clue for future researchers. I believe doing that can send people down the wrong path, waste time, and perpetuate misinformation. And it is a disservice to those being memorialized. I have discovered and witnessed among my own ancestors instances in which someone mistakenly or carelessly grabbed the wrong person for a family tree. Once it is attached, many others use that information as fact and attach to additional trees. Ancestry then "suggests" a possible ancestor for a person in a new tree, and that is accepted as fact, too. Before long, there are many trees with the erroneous information and it spreads to other genealogy sites like FAG.

So, please don't be offended if I ask you for a source for your suggested edits, and please don't be offended I don't accept an edit when the only source offered is an unsourced family tree on another site.