[or-roots] Uploads and Documentation of Files

[Eugene Barnes]

I have a relative who sumitted years of work to LDS and the messed it up.  He still cannot get it
straightened out.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Leslie Chapman 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 4:41 PM
  Subject: RE: [or-roots] Uploads and Documentation of Files


  Cecil;

  As I understand it part of the problem is that they aren't "cast in stone"
  one of the ladies in our local gen society had submitted her family with
  proper proof and documentation and then some distant cousin came along and
  changed a lot of what she had submitted to reflect anecdotal family
  histories that she had labored for years to prove or disprove and had
  conclusively proven were not the facts, but the church in it's infinite
  wisdom allowed him to amend her files and didn't even bother to tell her
  about it, the first she knew about it was when some third party was selling
  her information with the incorrect amendations to it and a fourth party took
  her to task for doing "bad genealogy".

  Are we confused yet?

  The biggest problem is that they are indiscriminate in the online stuff as
  to how it is done, anybody can submit a file to the web site in any
  condition and they just post them, and then some poor amatuer comes along
  and assumes they are gospel and puts them in their tree and furthers the
  crime. I know Iwas guilty of that when I started out I stuck a couple of LDS
  files into my family tree, they are still the root of my maternal
  grandmother's line, but when I started proving things and discovered one of
  the great grands who had only been married once in reality was married to
  her twenty times in my file I smelled a rat. I do not merge files ever
  again, and pretty much no longer use anything that doesn't have sources,
  unless I have confirmed it seperately.

  Of coures I know you are only "supposed" to use stuff you have two "proven"
  original sources for, but I would have gotten bored and/or bankrupted at
  about person number two hundred that way, but I have nearly 9000 folks in my
  family tree, the core of which I am fairly confident of and which I know I
  will not live long enough to prove even a tenth of let alone all of them. My
  only regret is I probably never will ferret out all the bogus relatives I
  have as a result of those first two files.

  Les
  -----Original Message-----
  From:  Cecil Houk
  Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 3:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Uploads and Documentation of Files


  I agree with Gary that LDS files contain errors.  I forget the man's name,
  but one of my 1850's ancestors married his mother on the day he was born...
  according to LDS files.  :-)  It's too bad those files are etched in stone.

  Cecil

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