On 19 Jan 2007, at 09:30, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote: I've had some experience of this from the other end. A lot of the content of the article about me is sourced from my father's website. When you look at the list of publications to his name you might conclude that he is a reliable source for the information he gives, more so than the official alternative, which is also available: I have also had dozens of articles published about me in the press and on the internet, which I can locate far more easily than the average editor, particularly those that predate Google and even the Web. I have been toying with the idea of whether to drop some hints, or to let sleeping dogs lie.

Steve Bennett wrote: As it happens, contributors to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography have done primary sources legwork for many of the earlies, digging through parish and city records and the like. Result is kind of a patchwork though, so for instance we know that a scientist was born in one city, married on a specific date in another, and was later on a university payroll in a third city, but we have no information on when or why he moved. Stan