User talk:Louise Walsh Throop

June 2020
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It took me all day to update the William Brewster material from the 2000 silver book [MF24] by Merrick published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants to the most recent edition of MF 24 published by Merrick in 2014....including the newer material on William's mother Mary (Smythe) (Simkinson) Brewster from the 2014 book! Please undo what you changed! Thanks! It may look the same to you as the author is the same, but we need the newer version cited! And the subsequent citations to the 2014 version remain, as you are assuming they pertain to the 2000 citation, but they are the pages from the 2014 book. I also got rid of some yahoo and other ephemeral website citations as they do not let you see the original printed work(s). Did you check to see if such is still on yahoo after all these years??

And you undid my little minor edits, like completing findagrave to findagrave.com

I do not like citations to the internet as they tend to be lengthy [3 lines?] and many times not reproduceable as they were taken from an individual search result with cycling numbers

I know, I am fussy as an editor.....but I have been an editor, abstractor and indexer for some 50 years!

Please undo what you changed! It was hard enough to get your computer to accept my changes as I am not used to your styles.

Louise Walsh Throop

03:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)03:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)03:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)03:22, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

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