It is my fault that this thread got started and I apologize; I was trying to answer the comment of someone who wondered if there was anything for the non-LDS person and I wandered off-track and assured them that FS had plenty to offer the public before NFS became public. I will answer this last comment just for clarification and then this needs to end on this list because it has nothing to do with Legacy. Again, I apologize for that.
That IS what is actually happening; each record is indexed by two separate individuals; if it is indexed EXACTLY the same way, every character the same, it proceeds. If anything in the record differs at all, that record goes to arbitration where another individual decides which transcription is correct or perhaps if neither is correct and the arbitrator can add their own transcription; if that happens, yet another person will review that change. I have done indexing and arbitration myself so I know that it is true. This is done by volunteers and most volunteers try to work with records that they are most familiar with and do a pretty good job. It's always possible for someone to try to transcribe a foreign record even though they didn't have that background but it isn't very likely. Who would want to take that on? I've arbitrated records where people lost track of which line they were on and that throws off the whole transcription but the 2nd person had it right so absolutely nothing matched on the entire census (for instance); so the entire census gets arbitrated. I can't explain your 90% failure rate but I'd bet there is a good explanation for it; something is amiss there. O jave several pages printed from the database that the original writer mentioned and have verified them all; transcriptions were just fine. They usually show the microfilm number too so you can get the film from the FHL and verify the info and copy the original document perhaps; then maybe you'll see why the transcriber thought it was something different. I would hesitate to complain and accuse when these millions of records are being worked on diligently by thousands and thousands of volunteers and a massive financial cost to provide something that is completely free to everyone in the world. If some of the volunteers make errors, even lots of errors, I am still grateful to them for their unselfish service to provide this for the rest of us. Kathy (remember, this thread has become 'off topic' and should not be continued via this list or we will have the wrath of Legacy administration crashing down upon us :-) On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Laura Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: > that may be what they are telling you is happening but it is NOT what is > actually happening. They are NOT being transcribed twice and no one > appears to be arbitrating any differences. They are not using people > who KNOW the handwriting and the language to transcribe and arbitrate, > so they are so full of mistakes. When it became available, I started > checking records against those that a group of us had already > transcribed and OVER 90% were incorrectly transcribed. I was told that > they would eventually correct the problems and that I could submit > corrections BUT ONLY ONE DOCUMENT PER EMAIL. Well when you have 50 > entries per page and NOT ONE was totally correct, it would take too long > to send in all of the corrections necessary to correct just the first > page of entries. Instead they kept trying to get me to transcribe for them > > On 1/18/2011 5:11 PM, Eliz Hanebury wrote: > > They do each record twice and then it goes to an arbitrator. I have > > family where the year changed by 3 seemingly at random. > > > > Eliz > > > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Jennifer Crockett > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well it doesn't give me much faith that any of the records can be taken > at face value. Instead of a mad rush to index everything, surely cross > checking, or having at least one other person verify correct recording > should have taken place. If the image was available it wouldn't matter so > much. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Jennifer > >> http://colston-wenck.com > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Eliz Hanebury [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 9:47 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] It's official - Legacy 7.5 is now available > >> > >> 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. 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