I was able to add new data (my 2X ggmother) AND sourcing
Eliz On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com> wrote: > On 2012/04/08 13:00, Graham Love wrote: >> After waiting for what seemed like years I was lucky enough to get LDS >> access and use the 'new' Legacy FamilySearch feature. After matching several >> hundred deceased relatives without a single new piece of correct information >> being found I'm now wondering what the purpose was. Sure it is nice to have >> the opportunity to correct all the misinformation in the IGI but where there >> is additional submitted LDS information this is innevitably wrong compared >> to my multi-sourced data. I've yet to find any link to accurate source >> information from FamilySearch and clearly cannot rely on other users >> information so I'm not sure this is any better than the old IGI. I was >> hoping that maybe I might be notified when matched entries were updated by >> others or that the LDS sources could be checked but I can't see how. I've >> matched nearly 50% of 14 generations of ancestors - a time consuming >> exercise in itself. Hopefully someone can tell me what I'm missing here or >> was it intended to be a one-way information exchange? > > I gave up using it very quickly! It just seems like a prettier version of the > IGI, with all its' attendant problems. The fact that you can only add > information to what's already there is going to lead to more and more > confusion > and arguments. > > Because of the lack of any 'good' data, it begins to look more and more line > another data-gathering exercise by the LDS. Tempting the unaware into putting > their data into nFS so that the LDS can get on with their main Temple business > of baptising the dead. > > All in all, a waste of effort for anyone outside of the US! > > -- > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > 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/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
