NEVER use auto-merge anywhere anytime. Here Lies Disaster, but not for long.
When manual match/merge offers to merge a man who died in 1732 with one born in 1843 -- the prospects aren't good. Cheryl Bryan Pratt wrote: > I don't seem to be able to get assistance from LegacyFS > users’ list, despite a number of requests, > so I am copying this to both groups. > > Just a warning - with Legacy Family Search. Don’t use Auto > Match. To my mind it’s genealogy’s worst experience. Each > individual gets aligned with all in sundry from the family > search database and then labelled with an ID. Even when, for > example, in my Legacy family database, I have an Irish born > woman, all sourced, marrying a Irish born man in New > Zealand, all sourced, I still get copious duplicates > patently obviously unconnected to my individual. One by one > you have to go through every non-matched individual to > tediously unlink it from your person. > > I think this link up to Legacy FS, while suitable to LDS for > their purposes, will be the ruination of all the efforts we > as genealogists, as opposed to LDS members, have put in to > ensuring that we carefully align and confirm the data we > collect from various sources. I foresee a mish-mash of > unautheticated individuals. > > Bryan 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
