While I agree that a mass import from a public tree is unwise, there are
other cases. Say you find a third cousin who has worked diligently for years
to capture a branch of your tree that you have not had a chance to research
for yourself. (A descendant line, not your ancestral line.) You correspond
and you get a sense for the quality of their research. They offer to send
you a GEDCOM. You import it into an empty file and check it over, including
fixing LOCATIONS to your own standards. Where their research and yours do
overlap, you resolve any conflicts with further research and collaboration.
Then why not merge the results into your main file, being sure to
automatically add the contributing relative as a source for each individual?
Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Jenny M Benson
Sent: Friday, August 2, 2019 8:52 AM
To: James G. Hermsen via LegacyUserGroup
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania
On 02-Aug-19 11:27 AM, James G. Hermsen via LegacyUserGroup wrote:
I recommend never to mass import other peoples work. I am careful enough
to know and understand exactly what I import from online. Manually
importing the information, one knows his information.
I'm with you on thtat, James.
When I get stuck I am quite happy to look at FS Family Tree or Ancestry
Public Member Trees, for example, to see if anyone else has found
something I've missed, but I never copy the information. I just use it
as a pointer to where to look, then I do the research myself and
manually enter it into my Legacy tree.
I recently saw a tree which included one of my ancestral lines and had a
further generation back than I have been able to find. Yes, I could
find the Baptism & Marriage records for the 2 people concerned but
nothing to show they were the parents of my ancestors (and they were
from another county) and the tree owner was not able to offer any, so
they have not been added to my tree.
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Jenny M Benson
http://jennygenes.blogspot.co.uk/
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