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Old 03-13-2012, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Trish Crocker View Post
I always use snopes (heck, I thought that The Villages was an urban legend..too good to be true). Why would someone be hesitant to use it?
From what I can tell it is just a couple in LA who research stuff--the Mikkelsons. They do probably nothing more than you yourself could do using Google, Chrome Google, Altavista, Bing, and many other web search engines.

They have no inside information about anything that I can see.

On the positive side, I have never seen any hidden agenda with their research. They just research some matter and then post where they found this research. Much like a reference librarian is supposed to do in any US public library.

Did Johnny Cash ever serve time in prison? What's your source for this? Two questions I actually got while an assistant at Englewood PL in Colorado back in 1984.

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