Although I appreciate what you are saying, you do have a serious misconception. Computers were designed to make your work easier, not do your work for you. Personally, I like to think that overall, I am much smarter and definitely have much more commonsense than a computer. I have a strong feeling that if a programmer could design a genealogy program that eliminated the need for the average user to do any thinking and/or rationalizing, the average user would not want to pay the cost of that program.
Maybe someday, someone will write the perfect genealogy program where one enters a single name, pushes a button and the program does all of the research, and makes sure all of the information is automatically entered into the program in a predetermined standardized format. Personally, I wont be interested in that program as I prefer the enjoyment of doing my own research, and ensuring that the information is entered in a consistent format. That is also why I will never import someone else's research directly into my file. Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:04 PM, magnoliasouth <[email protected]>wrote: > The thing is, computers were designed to do the work for us. To not > take advantage of that, is a mistake. There will ALWAYS be users that > will not enter things in the proper format. However, there will always > be fixes for user errors as well. It makes more sense to make the > software the very best, than to expect users to improve their skills. > > Another weird example of my Sumter locations was a... I kid you not... > Sumter County, GA of Columbia United States. That really made my > eyebrow go up. We have a large international family that collaborates > and it is sometimes amusing the things others come up with. Still, I > have to fix it. > > It would be nice if a location search for the term Sumter would simply > make a list and let me see ONLY those in that list so I could fix them > first. That's a simple piece of code, despite teaching everyone how to > correctly enter things. It would make life easier for all of us. > Ron Bernier Woonsocket, RI 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
