I have to say, the errors are often of the people giving and taking down information. There is currently no way to correct errors, they [Support at familysearch] say some day there will be, but they are concentrating on making a site that will work.
Eliz On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Jennifer Crockett <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not LDS. I have accessed one of the new collections recently and found > errors. What can one do about this? See below. The bride's date of birth > should be 6 July 1837 not 6 Dec 1837. The place of marriage was not Karby, > but Redsted. I know this from the online Danish Archives which show original > images. I verified the correct details with the image of the marriage record > and the death record for Else Anderson. > > Denmark Marriages, 1635-1916 > > Groom's Name: Peter Villadsen > Groom's Age: 24 > Bride's Name: Else Andersen > Bride's Birth Date: 06 Dec 1837 > Bride's Age: 29 > Marriage Date: 12 Oct 1866 > Marriage Place: Karby, Thisted, Denmark > > Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M01212-8 > System Origin: Denmark-EASy > Source Film Number: 410117 > Reference Number: 5-185-6 > > There was no image associated with this LDS record. I just want to warn > people that not all these types of records are error free. > > Regards, > > Jennifer > http://colston-wenck.com > > > From: Kathy Meyer [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 4:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] It's official - Legacy 7.5 is now available > > Family Search has not been ignoring the general public while working on NFS > though! I think everyone is aware of the record search pilot, right? > Thousands of people are digitizing records daily, mostly LDS but the general > public is welcome and encouraged to be involved in this project as well; and > lots of non-LDS people are doing this too. There are loads of US and foreign > records on the site for everyone to search and use in their research FREE of > charge as always. New collections are added to the database regularly as > they are completed and verified. Many collections even have the images > available for you to download FREE as well. There will be some databases > that will have images linked to a subscription site because of the > arrangements made between that site and the church in exchange for being > allowed to index the records but those will be a very small percentage of the > whole; I'm not even sure if there are any like that thus far. > > > Kathy > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
