On 2011/01/19 13:35, David Hook wrote: > Ancestry and Rootsweb are also flawed databases. Census records and BMD > records have mistakes in them as well. The IGI is no different from every > other genealogical source - you have to look at all the information > objectively and come to your own conclusions. Anyone expecting any resource > to be 100% accurate and 100% reliable so that they can blindly copy the > information without putting any thought into it is just being lazy and isn't > doing proper genealogical research.
And the big almost-certainty is, that the rubbish on Ancestry is going to find its' way on to the NewFamilySearch site. > As for this new feature, I'm probably not going to use it myself, but then > again I don't use all of the features in Legacy anyway. If it is helping > others with their research then I'm all for it. Neither will I. Particularly if I would lose control over whether I wanted to share information with the re-jigged site. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg 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
