Syble, I agree with everything you said, except I don't think Family Search Trees will be sold since they are produced by the LDS church.
Larry Lee [email protected] On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Syble Glasscock <[email protected]>wrote: > *Yes, Family Search is now free, and I've greatly benefited by their > website and work, I've volunteered some, but, I too am frustrated with > their trees, just as I am with ancestry.com <http://ancestry.com> trees, so > many duplications and so many errors, it's a daunting task trying to get > the corrections made. * > *Many of us also have spent many hours adding to Findagrave, yes it too is > free, but for how long, as many of your know it's now been sold to > Ancestry.com. My fear is that Family Search will also be sold, so I've > decided it's not worth the effort and I've added very little to Findagrave > since I heard of the sale, I've gained much from that website also. I'm > all about helping and even paying for sponsorship of pages or trees, but > having others to pay for what I've freely given is not fair in my opinion.* > *Syble* > > > On Saturday, December 14, 2013 11:02 PM, Paul Gray < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 - http://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<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<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<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 > 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). 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