Ron, The points that you are making are exactly why I will not link my database to FamilySearch. Before someone on the list jumps down my throat and tells me I am being foolish, they need to carefully read the fact that I said I will not link my database to FamilySearch. I will and do avail myself of the information on FS, but I manually search their database and manually enter any information that I deem is useful for my database. I have no desire to sort through fifty people that FamilySearch's database has determined are a match for the one person in my database.
The FamilySearch database is already fraught with duplicate information, incorrect information, incomplete information. These errors and duplications will grow exponentially as more and more folks decide to connect to FamilySearch and continue to perpetuate the duplications and errors. Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]>wrote: > Mike, > > That is pretty much what I am politely(?) trying to say. > > The powers that be seem to think that there are sufficient controls in > place to ensure their data is not corrupted. I am less than convinced. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > Mike Fry <[email protected]> wrote: > > >On 2013/11/28 01:19, Ron Ferguson wrote: > > > >> Whilst Family Search is based on user submitted data, with all the > problems > >> that brings, we can now also amend that data, and with the best will in > the > >> world I cannot but see how this is not going to worsen the quality of > the > >> data. > > > >Don't you think that facilities like this, improperly used, will only add > to the > >mess that was the IGI? After all, the FamilySearch database does include > a lot > >of what was in the IGI. > > > >-- > >Regards, > >Mike Fry > >Johannesburg (g) > > > > > > > >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 > > > 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
