How cross would you be, or am I over reacting?

[lesleyhannah]

Point taken Les! Didn't mean to sound critical - just thinking out loud! (And wondering whether I've asked for too many lookups!)

I think when I first started I could hardly find anything for myself, even though I had subscriptions, so I've learnt a lot from people who've done lookups for me. Maybe the person putting all the requests on the site is just very inexperienced and enthusiastic?

As for checking other people's findings, well I suppose I do. If someone finds a person I couldn't find, then I'll look up their suggestion, because if it's my family I may be able to pick up other clues that would help. But when I first started my research I think I did take what other people said as 'gospel' because everyone seemed to know loads more than I did. I learnt from experience when I realised some things didn't 'add up' and I had to go back and do loads of deleting and checking.

[les_looking]

Point taken Les! Didn't mean to sound critical - just thinking out loud! (And wondering whether I've asked for too many lookups!)

I think when I first started I could hardly find anything for myself, even though I had subscriptions, so I've learnt a lot from people who've done lookups for me. Maybe the person putting all the requests on the site is just very inexperienced and enthusiastic?

As for checking other people's findings, well I suppose I do. If someone finds a person I couldn't find, then I'll look up their suggestion, because if it's my family I may be able to pick up other clues that would help. But when I first started my research I think I did take what other people said as 'gospel' because everyone seemed to know loads more than I did. I learnt from experience when I realised some things didn't 'add up' and I had to go back and do loads of deleting and checking.

no problem Lesley
luckily i think, i didn't find my way onto Roots until i was well into my reasearching so did a lot of digging myself,
otherwise as you say when new you may assume others know best, at least as you say you had to do some deleting etc, whereas some trees stuff is added and then that's it, no alterations, hopefully as the online trees/programmes evolve, one day a pop up will come on saying THAT'S WRONG lol or wishfull thinking