An interesting column by Regina Hines in Missouri's Sun Herald discusses the important differences between collectors and researchers of family history. Collectors are individuals who collect information from relatives, published family histories and the Internet - people who, as Regina so eloquently puts it, "may never darken the door of a library, courthouse or archives. They are just content to click away on their computers whether they can find proof or not." Researchers, on the other hand, start out as collectors, but then take their family history a step further and seek out sources of proof. Anyone can collect names for their family tree. What's important is taking the extra step to make sure the names really belong there.