Robert, Agreed! I cannot possibly see how Facebook can be anything other than a repository. I have a friend in England who gives his address as California! QED.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Robert E. Carneal Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 5:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Facebook I am with you!! Consider these facts: 1.. Some of my friends on Facebook declared their birth city to be some other city besides the one they were actually born in. 2.. Some of them lied about their birth. 3.. Some of them lied about their jobs. Reason so they cannot be contacted at work. 4.. I have friends who are parents who engage in a "my child is better than your child" type game. Report card time, they wait for their friends to say what their child got on a report card, and make their own child better. Facebook, while you do have bona fide honest friends, I bet all of us have friends who will exaggerate to look as good as the people next door. I keep reminding people not to take everything at face value on Facebook. My solution: If someone on Facebook says an ancestor of mine married so and so, I email them and get more facts. I will recond in Legacy that Kathy Smith said <whatever>. Then I will actually get verification of those facts through records. If I find it true, I will list Kathy as a bona fide source (Not Facebook). If not true, I leave the information Kathy said about my ancestor in notes. It might prove useful to refer to later, but I won't change anything. Thank you. Robert Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work. On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Sherry/Support <[email protected]> wrote: Why would you believe *anything* to be credible on Facebook??? Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Randy Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > If they state their birthdate and you believe it to be credible then why not > source it as Facebook? > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just out of curiosity, WHY would you want to use Facebook as a source? If >> you are talking with Mr. John Doe on Facebook and he gives you some >> information that you need then I would source it as an interview with the >> person. (And, I would then try and find the information myself so that I >> could source it properly. Hearsay from someone isn't really a proper >> source.) 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
