Richard Ripley’s Genealogy Blog
August 10 2011
About our Free Response Service
When someone requests a ‘Free Response’ by email, as offered on our ‘home page’, we make every effort to provide a high-quality answer. To provide an answer, we start by examining the documents and records which have in our files. Next, we examine material which is in our archives. Finally, we attempt to contact by email, any of the NFFG members & partner researchers who may have additional information. Typically, it takes about three hours of professional research time to produce a definitive answer to a ‘free response’ question.
The response is given freely to the person who submitted the question. However, the proofs, records, and documents which were used in creating the response are not provided for free. The person who submitted the request is advised of the nature of evidence which is available, and is quoted a fee for our provision of this evidence. The fee may be paid using PayPal.
Sometimes, problems arise. The person who submitted the question may have been following some sort of unsubstantiated genealogy from a cousin etc., or such as may be found on the web, or at family pages at Ancestry.com. The person may object to our findings, and not be willing to pay for the provision of the evidence which we have found. Other times, it appears that the submitted was simply hoping to pick our professional service, and to obtain leads and direction which they could not find on their own. The latter type of submitter is actually practicing a form of piracy.
Suggestion: If you are submitting a question by email for a ‘free response’, have an open mind to the possibility of errors in the lines of research which you have been following. Remember that professional research and evidence which we provide has value. The evidence which we provide could save you many, even hundreds, or hours of research.
August 20 2011
About Gay Marriage
Gay marriages are a recent development in the social domain. These marriages are based upon homosexuality, which is a variant from traditional and natural sexuality. Traditional sexuality is the fuel in the engine of traditional marriages, which results in the birth of children, and the creation of lineages which eventually form a traceable genealogy. Natural sexuality is easily observed in the anatomy and function of the male and female bodies. Genealogy here is therefore based on traditional marriage. Gay marriages and adoption of children into such unions, or surrogate parentage, etc., could cause serious difficulties for future genealogists, when the addition of contemporary laws regarding privacy.
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