Robert, I agree with you. FaceBook, Ancestry, Family Search and etc are NOT the source but MAY be a repository. The REAL resource is the document, book, census and etc.
Thanks, David C Abernathy Email disclaimers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com <http://www.schmeckabernathy.com/> == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == From: Robert E. Carneal [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 8:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Facebook I hope Millennia doesn't tell me to be quite, but that is my point. Facebook is not telling you that, JANE DOE is! Jane Doe is the source, not Facebook! I.e., I am against crediting Facebook because of this example: Laura Smith sees Uncle Joe's wife's Jane's birthday on Facebook. She copies Jane's birthday into Legacy, and sources Facebook. Ten years later, Laura's son discover the birthday is wrong by six years. Ok, who gave his mother that information? Facebook? Ok, but WHO on Facebook? Just Facebook is credited. Then the son cannot go back and check. That's awful and so easy to prevent. Now, had Laura instead said "the information was on Joe's personal page," then the son can go to Joe (if he is alive) and get correct information. I said it before, and I will say it again. People's Facebook pages *cannot* be trusted. People will lie about their locations, lie about the birth dates, heck, even some of my friends have lied about their job on Facebook. I have a friend who works here in where I live and he put down he lived in New York state! You just can't trust Facebook data. I have gotten Gedcoms where some of the sources simply said "Facebook Corporation." No name given to check verify those sources! No email, no home address, nothing. I immediately ditched those Gedcoms!! It could have been made up. Now I will shut up about Facebook. Thank you. Robert Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work. On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: Sorry to disagree but I think Facebook and its companion site We are Related can be excellent sources. If Jane Doe tells me about her immediate family, it can be considered accurate especially since there are no records yet on these members - remember privacy laws. I do like the interview suggestion,though. Thanks. On 11/23/2011 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 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
