Comments on: Us vs. Them

By: Judy Webster

Judy Webster — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:29:37 +0000

Thomas, thank you! I know how hard you work. No-one can please all the people all the time, but most of us really appreciate what you do. Great article and great comments! As a relatively new member of the great Geneabloggers community, and having done personal research since 1974 and paid research since 1986, I do have some thoughts on the topics currently being discussed, so I will be adding my ten cents worth. Watch for it on my Genealogy Leftovers blog sometime on the Easter weekend.

By: Thomas MacEntee

Thomas MacEntee — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:47:21 +0000

Cindy

Actually I only fly American Airlines but I won’t tell your hubby about us! And just wait for today’s announcement . . . there will be a new radio show on Saturday afternoons at 1pm Central starting this week, April 23rd.

For some reason I’m humming, “Me and Cindy Jones, Cindy Jones, Cindy Jones . . . we got a thing goin’ on . . .”

By: Theresa Casteel

Theresa Casteel — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:12:47 +0000

I forgot to add that I would hate to see geneabloggers segmented in to subgroups. JMHO.
Thanks.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:48:12 +0000

Thomas – I love you, but don’t tell my husband! You and I spend Friday nights together (on Blog Talk Radio). We’ve also spent some time together in the afternoons. I can’t tell you the last time my husband and I went out on a Friday night! I better fess up right now – he’s a pilot and he’s never home on Fridays. He’s actually based in Chicago, and if you are flying American, you probably spend more time with him than I do!

Seriously, thank you for all that you do. I appreciate all of your hard work.

By: Jennifer Trahan

Jennifer Trahan — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:33:12 +0000

I’m still lost as to why people are offended by anything. I left blogging for a few days to do research, and I come back to read Apple’s post about how she is offended by these “geneabullies.” And she’s not really the first person I’ve heard mention this in the last year or so. So I’m kind of confused because I’ve never encountered a geneabully. I don’t subscribe to any professional mailing lists, which is where I hear they lurk, so maybe that is why I don’t know anything. However, I have a feeling that they are less of a reality and more of a myth created in the minds of insecure people. Insecure is not a word in my vocabulary, and I do take my source citations very seriously (in my database; not on my blog because that would take some of the fun out of blogging). Maybe that’s why I feel lost in this whole discussion. I would be the type of person to get hung up on a period or semicolon in my own source citations, but I realize that not everyone is like that, and that’s okay.

By: Ol' Myrt

Ol' Myrt — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:23:57 +0000

Thanks for being there Thomas. I had no idea there were nay-sayers in the crowd. I cannot imagine how anyone could miss how much good will you’ve developed in our group. We were lone bloggers in the wilderness, and you helped galvanize us into a more cohesive unit. We are now a strong lobbying group.

(((((((((((((hugs))))))))))
Myrt

By: Susan Petersen

Susan Petersen — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:17:15 +0000

Why do I get the feeling that my remote has just landed on Faux News?

I am returning to my original programming.

P.S. Thomas – YOU ROCK!

By: Karen Packard Rhodes

Karen Packard Rhodes — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:05:44 +0000

Just think of Edwin Markham’s “Outwitted:”

“He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In !

Thank you for all you have done and all you do for genealogy-minded folk everywhere.

By: Christine Sharbrough

Christine Sharbrough — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:31:33 +0000

Right on man! I’ve watched you for many years and seen the blood, sweat and tears. Don’t let a few nay-sayers detract from reaping the benefits of all your hard work. Isn’t most of the screaming about the screamers anyway?

By: Michael Hait

Michael Hait — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:00:30 +0000

I absolutely love the bowling comparison in the above comment!
From the perspective of a professional genealogist, I do not look down at all on even the newest hobbyist. I am extremely proud that I have the knowledge and experience to help those that are just starting. Sometimes I wish that I could go back to the beginning of my research and do it all over with some of that knowledge (or even the knowledge of its existence). And there are quite a few times that I wish I could just stop worrying about being a professional and go back to just researching my own family.
Communities such as the Geneablogger community simply did not exist in such numbers and strength 15-20 years ago. Sure, there were communities of genealogists, but very few beginning genealogists had the ability to learn about these communities before the Internet grew into what it is today.