After ploughing along for some hours (a lot of hours) working with my Legacy family file and Family Search’s database, I’ve decided I’m not going to do Family Search’s work of spending copious hours of cleaning up their rubbishy data collection.
I started out hoping to help FS - I have benefitted from a lot of their data - and then to also pick up more data for my own family file. But no longer am I going to trawl through for example 15 odd Margaret’s because they could be duplicates of my (already surnamed ) Margaret. The FS database needs to be cleaned out of idiotic entries like using the above: e.g “Margaret, born, such and such date. Is yours the same?”, when you have already inputted that she was born in Ireland and married in USA. The FS program is so user unfriendly. No ability to copy/paste for edit fields (except keyboard), the merge colours are hopeless to differentiate, the continuous re-check of duplicates is so time consuming; to name but a few. I’m not an LDS member, and I feel we are being used to sort their agenda. Somehow in this amalgam of Legacy and Family Search, I feel I’ve ended up being a servant of the LDS to further their end. The Legacy Family Tree software and the religious agenda need to be separated. Bryan NZ Sent from Windows Mail 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
