Lazy Genealogist - Ethical Genealogy?

Add 10 points each postive thing you do.

Subtract 10 points for each negative thing that you do.

1. Do you post query questions with as little information as possible?

1. Are you too lazy to type?

2. Do you think that being vague is the easy way out?

2. Do you post information in your family files without a resource?

1. Do you want others to think that you did the work, so you just forget about the resources because it takes too much time to ask for permission?

3. Do you think that resources are not important to you so why should they be to someone else?

3. Do you collect cemetery stone or obituary information by recording only part of the data that is given on the stone or in the obit.?

1. Maybe you are to lazy to collect the foot stone or military stone data?

2. Are you too lazy to record all of the dates including the inscriptions?

3. Are you too lazy to separate the inscriptions from the notes in your files?

4. Do you collect obits without the vital parts included - or re-write the obit? Do you add parts to it?

1. Do you leave off the date or the paper name because it takes too much time to record everything?

2. Do you write into the obituary the words you want it to read instead of writintg notes about what is missing or what is incorrect?

5. Are you so lazy that you slant your genealogy?

1. Do you sometimes leave out data that you don't want?

2. Do slant what you collect - by only recording parts of it?

3. Are you not paying attention to names on the census records that should be added to your charts?

4. Are you not listening to family stories because it takes too much time to record them?

5. Do you listen too much to family stories and forget to relay on the important facts?

6. Not recording all the names of the same surname in a cemetery because it takes a lot of work to do all of them?

6. Do you post or pass on second handed information that has no documentation?

1. Do you post data on the Internet before time is given to documentation?

2. Do you do hearsay genealogy?

7. Do you take photos from others but refuse to share yours?

1. Do you say that it takes too much time to learn how to scan and e-mail photos?

8. Do you use excuses for not doing the right thing?

1. Do you say it's not my direct line so I don't know about them?

2. Do you say that you can't be responsible for the error, because you are not a good typist - or that you don't read well?

3. Do you say that it would take too much time to learn to do whatever it is that you are not doing that you should be doing?

4. Is laziness behind your excuses or do you not care about having the data right?

9. Do you let others do your genealogy?

1. Do you use copy and paste genealogy from Internet sources because it takes less time?

2. Do you take photos from others and say that they are yours because it takes too much time to ask for permission to use them?

3. Do you give others credit?

10. Do you do ethical genealogy or are you just a lazy genealogist?

1. Do you do as little as possible?

2. Do you look for shortcuts instead of details?

3. Do you spend time studying the data?

4. Do you have respect for the person who collected it?

5. Do you change names or dates so that they will fit in your files?

Do you have a positive or negative score?

Ethical genealogy means that honesty and uprightness have to be your main focus and that takes time.