Bryan,
I sometimes get frustrated with the quality of FS Family Tree data, but it is what it is. It will only get cleaned up if we do it, no one else will. The main reason I correct and merge records of my ancestors is that I want the data on my ancestors to be correct and widely available for future generations. I believe Family Search to be the best bet to be a system that is maintained and available indefinitely. And it is free to all. I am not LDS so I don’t use any of the ordinance tracking. It will take time. I’m only looking at direct ancestors (grandparents) for now. No uncles, aunts, cousins etc. Yet. I’m in no rush. When it gets overwhelming, I remember the old saying. “How do you eat an elephant?”. “One bite at a time.”. But, there are many who feel as you do. Just uncheck options 1.8 and 1.9 and you won’t even know it’s there. Paul Gray From: Bryan Pratt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December-14-13 8:46 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Legacy Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Search and Legacy 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 _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6921 - Release Date: 12/14/13 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
