TerryB
Lt. Colonel
- Joined
- Dec 7, 2008
- Location
- Nashville TN
I have posted some pics with tentative IDs with the caveat that I'm only guessing, not certain. Some people take these and run with them without asking permission. I can remember a couple of times when I became very certain that I had incorrectly IDed one or two and contacted people who had them on their websites, lifted from mine. Some of them got downright huffy, seeming offended, as if I had accused them of the incorrect ID. I get emails re findagrave all the time wanting me to add or change something. I'm always glad to oblige if the sender seems to know what they are talking about.
Once I noticed someone had lifted a lot of data from my old genealogy site about the Jesse W Wynne family. Since I had clearly stated that I was not an authority and was to some degree speculating, the lifter should have put that caveat up front. Well, I posted such a caveat again on the old website, and, miracle of miracles, the lifter posted the caveat, too. One thing I had absolutely proved beyond all doubt was that Capt. Jesse W Wynne (3rd Texas Cav) had married his first cousin. I got an enormous amount of resistance about that, but it's in her father's will. I also got some resistance when I made a very strong case that her father had previously married a Maragret Ross, which is why so many people were wrong. Jesse's cousin was named Margaret Ross Wynne before she married him, not Maragret Ross. Margaret Ross was her mother, and I made a very strong case that she was a daughter of Hugh Ross II whose father had moved to NC from Scotland, then to the area in Tennessee where the Wynnes lived at the time. I got a lot of flak for that one.
Once I noticed someone had lifted a lot of data from my old genealogy site about the Jesse W Wynne family. Since I had clearly stated that I was not an authority and was to some degree speculating, the lifter should have put that caveat up front. Well, I posted such a caveat again on the old website, and, miracle of miracles, the lifter posted the caveat, too. One thing I had absolutely proved beyond all doubt was that Capt. Jesse W Wynne (3rd Texas Cav) had married his first cousin. I got an enormous amount of resistance about that, but it's in her father's will. I also got some resistance when I made a very strong case that her father had previously married a Maragret Ross, which is why so many people were wrong. Jesse's cousin was named Margaret Ross Wynne before she married him, not Maragret Ross. Margaret Ross was her mother, and I made a very strong case that she was a daughter of Hugh Ross II whose father had moved to NC from Scotland, then to the area in Tennessee where the Wynnes lived at the time. I got a lot of flak for that one.
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