Consider removing your SOURCE CITATIONS when you share. Withholding source citations is one strategy for publicly sharing your research to encourage others to contact you without giving away all of your own hard work. Genealogical research with names, dates, places and relationships becomes a mere finding aid if it is published without source citations. Be sure to label your work as "without sources" or "sources available upon request" so that other researchers will recognize that you've intentionally withheld this vital information. Researchers who are serious about their work will recognize the limitations of your "names & dates" only file and will contact you further for your sources. You can then make an informed decision about whether or not to share your sources privately with them. If you haven't shared your sources, you're only sharing mythology, not genealogy.
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